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Geekbench doesn't compare stock rigs, it compares benchmark results - commonly used by overclockers, even those who go to extremes like liquid nitrogen. The benchmark results this is being compared to are also heavily overclocked and tuned systems.

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Cite for that? All I see are numbers with an Intel CPU model next to them. I don't see anything reporting the hardware configuration except for the one AMD system, which as noted is very significantly tweaked.

What could be a cite for this. PC builders worldwide like to build their computers and then benchmark them on geekbench. Naturally the top most benches will be the heavily tuned ones.

See Geekbench database. The ones with high scores seem to have memory around 2100/4200

For example : https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13481225

Single-Core Score Multi-Core Score 6178 56017

Memory 65536 MB DDR4 SDRAM 2101MHz

Name Intel Core i9-9980XE

The model name with a number next to it is some sort of average (they don't say but I think it's geometric mean?) computed from all scores submitted from that particular model. It's not terribly useful because you have no idea how many of them are overclocked, by how much, the memory configs, etc. without reading through every entry and a lot of them are missing info anyway.

You can see all 9980XE Geekbench results here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?dir=asc&page=1&q...

This 3950X result is definitely not faster than the top overclocked 9980XE, but it is faster than something like 3/4 of them. Given the base clocks of each I would expect the stock 3950X will end up at least slightly faster than the stock 9980XE though.

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