Overclocking has always been about eating into the design/binning margins. So sorta by definition if a CPU doesn't "overclock" its because its already overclock

Overclocking has always been about eating into the design/binning margins. So sorta by definition if a CPU doesn't "overclock" its because its already overclocked. What intel is doing here isn't "overclocking" they are just tightening their CPU margins up to the same levels that AMD has. AKA, intel isn't overclocking their cpu anymore than AMD is. The only real difference is what the fmax of the design is, which in this case appears higher for the intel parts. Now if you want to argue about how efficient a design is at a certain power level, that is more logical. And its a semi interesting case (aka downclock the intel slightly so that the perf on a given benchmark is identical to the AMD, then measure the power utilization).