"This thing is X% faster than this thing which was Y% slower than this other thing so they're about even."
Even if these comparisons are true, AMD equaling Intel 2 years after release is nowhere near the competition we need in the CPU market.
Not where it matters, which is the price/performance ratio.
It doesn't matter if Intel is able to put in the market their Formula 1 chips at a Formula 1 price, when most of the world deals with a Honda Civic budget.
When we factor in the fact that the Formula 1 chip isn't even the bottleneck in the system in most cases, the comparison only gets worse.