I am not making up the regression bit, while it appears that Intel has jumped ahead of Ryzen on single-core, the rumors suggest it will actually be slower in heavily threaded tasks compared to Comet Lake.
Considering how rumors often hype up an upcoming chip’s computing speed compared to the competition, this was an unusual sight to see. One possible reason is that this is based on a new architecture that was meant for the 7nm process but had to be backported to 14nm. I’m not saying the regression will be present on release, but it does throw in some uncertainty on whether we can continue to expect a reliable upward trend in performance, especially as we do not yet know how today’s software will handle the BIG.little design Intel is planning with Alder Lake (which may also need to be backported).