Yeah it's because Intel has spent the last 8 years just throwing mhz at their chips and not increasing IPC like AMD, hence why they're in the trouble they are. I bet if everyone did a CPUZ benchmark all of us at 4GHZ exactly, and then showed our single cores... we'd find that AMD is on top... and the latest and greats I9 9 series and 10 series aren't barely any better than the i5's/i7's variations mhz for mhz (taking out featuresets like avx2 etc, i.e. keeping a level playing field)... there certainly won't be much in it!
So just incase anyone fancies doing that, I've just declocked mine to 4ghz as close as I can get... and here is my single core on CPUZ, lets see what other more modern cpu's can do at the same mhz?
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