Leaked AMD Ryzen benchmarks show close competition with Intel

[Redaktion]

Benchmarks for AMD's new Ryzen 7 1700X chip have appeared on SiSoft SANDRA's benchmarking leaderboards. The chip, which may be pre-production and not fully optimized, gives a strong showing against several Xeon chips, the i7-6900K, and i7-7700K.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Leaked-AMD-Ryzen-benchmarks-show-close-competition-with-Intel.197510.0.html

[Paul Berger]

It takes AMD an 8 cores CPU to go against Intel's 4 cores 7700K ?
How not impressive...

[Andrew]

8 core AMD benching the same as the 4 core Intel? If all cores are 100% utilised then this is a disaster.

I think there's something else going on here, doesn't seem to match up with other info regarding single core performance in any case.