It wasn't my comparison. I'm not saying buy one vs the other. I'm simply responding to grandparent comment's claim that a 16C 3950X will beat a 18C 10980XE by

It wasn't my comparison. I'm not saying buy one vs the other. I'm simply responding to grandparent comment's claim that a 16C 3950X will beat a 18C 10980XE by 25%, which, no, it won't. The performance of these products is already known +/- a few percent, they are both just evolutions of existing products.