That's good but poor journalism on that website's part. They have the CPU. There are over two weeks left. They could have taken some time to do the actual benchmarks that this CPU is meant for. How pathetic. I hope now that their PSU blows up in a cloud of smoke and takes their damn 5800X3D with it!
Why not release one sneak peek result early while going through and benchmarking all of the various games at the various resolutions and assembling all of that data?
If I just got that CPU early I'd probably put out a few quick results and then get to work on the larger set of benchmarks for games. Putting out a small subset of data would be sloppy because we already know from AMD that some games see a much bigger boost than others and not having a good data set could easily create a misleading picture. That would be sloppy journalism.
Actually, Gaming is/was a just a side effect that AMD is exploiting on the consumer side to reclaim the "Gaming Crown" for bragging rights.
3D V Cache will give up to 80% performance boost on Real World Scenarios like Fluid Dynamics Simulation. But those are HPC applications where most here don't even know/care about.
Should we really care why the product came about? Does is matter from our perspective whether it was intentional or just a happy accident? We get the performance either way.
Gaming Crown is worth at least something to AMD even if it's just bragging rights. Selling these chips into the HPC market is a lot more profitable so unless AMD has saturated that market they'd be be making more turning these into server chips. Obviously the mindshare they get from being "King for Gamers" is worth at least the difference in money they could make or they wouldn't do it.