Sure, the 8-core runs at a lower clock speed and and old arch - that's a major (but unavoidable) part of the problem, as I said. To be specific: you can't get

Sure, the 8-core runs at a lower clock speed and and old arch - that's a major (but unavoidable) part of the problem, as I said. To be specific: you can't get the equivalent of a 7700k with eight cores - the 6900k is (AFAIK) the next best thing, and by the looks of it, ryzen for all it's revolutionary improvements wrt bulldozer, is not all that different from a 6900k. AMD's own numbers place it at an identical single core perf.