The thing about the 9700K (which they point out) is that it doesn't support hyperthreading. Then it even beats the 9900K by a significant amount in a lot of the

The thing about the 9700K (which they point out) is that it doesn't support hyperthreading. Then it even beats the 9900K by a significant amount in a lot of the same tests, even though the 9900K should otherwise be the faster one, indicating the reason is that those workloads suffer a performance detriment from enabling SMT. It should be interesting to see the results of those tests with SMT disabled.