My finding on benchmarking is that certainly the software optimization is a little bias. Intel always releasing new C++ compiler which can greatly optimized for their own processor. Performance gain is doubtful (real performance gain vs scores gain).

Anyway, it's like back into the old day of AMD which a few benchmark can keep up with Intel but the price are much low. I don't see running an AMD platform is like riding a car traveling at 60km/h while Intel's platform is at 60mph.