No, there is only one reason: Geekbench.It's results may be inconsistent even between consecutive runs of the same bench on the same system.Guess which one was made with real-time priority, and which one was made while playing Spider Solitaire at Normal priority?That's 5% error margin per physical core. In 4.0 it was a lot more (my scores could vary from 4300 to 4900 under the same conditions)

Wait, AMD just launch CPU with 8 core kill all processors with 6 cores in any application and now you want to say that CPU with x2 cores is somehow same power as i7-5820K in Geekbench.

That's not software from 2009. That's newest software with support for Intels and AMD Ryzen and valid for testing PC processor or cell phone processor and how CPU with 16 core competitior to i9-7900X could give same score as i7-5820K. I expect to Intel i9-7900X give 80% better result than i7-5820K in any situation.

4.5GHz clock, 4 cores more and newer architecture if AMD is not 50% stronger than i7-5820K I don't know why they expect.

I compare with 4.0.3 and last 4.1.0 and results of my CPU are better in last Geekbench and he is closer to AMD in last than previous version of software.

i7-5960X have over 30.000 multi score, even 35.000



We could say nothing is valid, only games are important, CINEBENCH, Geekbench, SiSoftware, Fritzchess, ... never mind, but that's not true... They measure CPU power and Geekbench know to recognize strong processor.

Intel Coffee Lake when show up will give single at least 6000 and multi at least 30.000 with his 6 cores and 95W. i9-7900X 45-46.000 multi my rough estimate.



i7-5820K/i7-5930K are killers on 4.5GHz imagine CPU with 10 cores on Intel Turbo Boost 3.0 and new architecture with better memory controller.