I'm wondering if they're using the patches for the intel chip during this testing, if not the difference is substancially more in favor of amd.
What do the patches do?
The ones for specter and that other security hole in the cpus. AMD doesn't have the holes but intel does. In some computers the slowdown is over 10% after patching. Here it's about the problems https://meltdownattack.com/ https://www.extremetech.com/computing/264796-recent-intel-cpus-take-performance-hit-spectre-meltdown-patches
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