Yeah read that and was surprised, because the 7700K & 7740X were the last Intel CPUs were the Ring run at the same speed with the core, hence single core perf of the 7700K/7740X at 5Ghz was always much better than anything intel had at 5Ghz even the 9900K/KS.
Also to drop something else, the 9900K has 500-509 single core perf with 3200C14 ram (similar to 3700X, 3800X and less than 3900X/3950X) we do not know what sort of ram used on the 3300X.
AMD's CPU's are a lot like GPU's, chip-set drivers are like GPU drivers..... a few generations of chip-set drivers ago i gained about 10 points in ST cinebench r20 going from one driver to the next, yes this was a definite performance up lift.
Edit: same up lift in CPU-Z.