I have looked at reviews and most gaming benchmarks show Zen 4 7700X barely beating 12700K despite its P cores clocked 400-700MHz higher than 12700K.
I mean if they are same clock speed not sure.
Though I did see a 7950X at 5GHz trading blows or beating a 12900K at 4900MHz.
So they seem all over the place.
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In this one P cores are clocked at 4700MHz for 12700K and the P cores on 7700X are clocked at 5400-5500MHz. And they trade blows. The e-cores ignore them as they do nothing for games and are crap so do not count
Ryzen 9 7950X vs Core i9 12900K + RTX 3090 Ti - Test in 10 Games | FHD(1920x1080)
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In this review the 12900K P cores are clocked around 4900MHz and 7950X all cores clocked around 5000MHz. Ignore Intel CPU clock as it averages in e-waste cores which do not count and do nothing for games, so look at P core clock. Since 7950X has only P cores look at overall core clock which is around 5000MHz.
They trade blows which proves your point here.
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Ironically though this one trades blows with 7950X being 5500Mhz and 12900K P cores being around 4900MHz so again proves the point of IPC being better on Golden Cove??
Strange all around.
They aren’t really tests of IPC.