No benchmark found it equal though. It loses on techspot, loses on techpowerup, loses on linus. Yes, by a fraction, but it's the same fraction that the 12700 loses to as well (actually linus found the 12700 > 12900). So point still stands, the 12700 is the one to beat in performance and value, and it's not even close to doing that.
we have to see more spread of games will be interesting, can imagine all them people currently on Am4 with ryzen 3000 and below to get such nice boost in gaming by just dropping in CPU not everyone would wanna complete system change costs more must be plenty of them people . great to see how AMD pushing forward , pretty hyped now what zen4 can do