I would say they overclock about the same, if you talking from non turbo clock's, but ryzen's auto o/c is a lot better than intel's so the results of manual o/c over that may be more limited.
p state overclocking which is gaining traction on the ryzen platform has my interest.
An observation I made is that these chips in stock non turbo clocks are really power and heat efficient, my chip runs at 1.08v at 3.6ghz, 44C under stress load using the supplied AMD cooler. That for a 6 core wipes the floor with intel. But when you hit the xfr clocks the vcore rises rapidly although they stay within TDP limits and temps are still reasonable compared to intel. (These chips are so efficient without XFR there is people on reddit who have decided to disable CPB to keep the super low vcore, as going from 1.08 to 1.4+ is a bit much for some people to stomach.)
So I noticed when core performance boost is enabled (XFR), that I dont usually see the stock max clocks, its either in idle clocks or in turbo clocks, it seems very aggressive in going to the turbo clocks. This is why I am interested in p-state overclocking as that can be used to keep the chips in non XFR clocks, and only utilise turbo clocks when the cpu utilisation is actually heavy not when you just loading notepad.
How would I put it, consider how primitive old style overclocking is in afterburner vs the voltage curve, thats how I see p-state overclocking, its the future.
On the subject of that 8pack build, my issue with that build is if I am spending 2k on a rig, I would want more than 16 gig of ram for my money, especially with recent ram price drops, there really should be 32gig in there.
Also I have changed my view a bit on the b450 chipset.
I can see now from a bit of research that although the b450 chipsets are absolutely fine for the normal auto o/c (my chip clocks as high as those using x470 with same chip, same with ram), the limitation comes when you want to do stuff manually, e.g. my board has no p-state controls whilst asrock's x470 boards do, also I cannot control LLC, so for manual o/c the board has less ability to apply granular tuning.
