Just looking at the first page of results for the 9980xe, it's pretty common, especially for multithreaded benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/sea

Just looking at the first page of results for the 9980xe, it's pretty common, especially for multithreaded benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=9980xe https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=9980xe But the big qualifier is "on identical hardware." The geekbench score in the article is not a measurement on the same hardware, it's an aggregate of measurements across lots of hardware (different memory clocks, motherboards, etc). That's why a single run is not particularly useful, it just tells us what that user got on that day with that hardware. We need lots of data points to tell us more or less how it will compare on most builds. Again, not to diminish how promising the score is for the product. Hats off to AMD. I'm just waiting until there are more data points to be confident.