Perhaps the loss of Robert Hallock is having a real effect. This latest keynote had 2 really egregious examples. They also had the Zen 3 XT gaming benchmarks where they used an RX 6600 GPU to test against a 13700K equipped with DDR4 to make it appear that the 5900 XT is on par with RPL in gaming performance.
Recent AMDs marketing slides are in shambles, they contain intentional and unintentional mistakes that make them close to worthless for any serious analysis.
They spent years to build trust, especially in their CPU marketing efforts, and now they caught the AI fever and will waste all that trust capital on worthless wins. I used to trust their CPU slides because they were consistently proven correct (as much as marketing slides can be ofc), now I can't even be sure about their end notes.
On the subject of 256 cores vs. 128 cores, I think it would be fair game to highlight such an advantage if the platform allows this config for one vendor and not the other, but it would also need further details about cost, power, etc. That being said, once you start highlighting the differences between the platforms, then the lack of AMX extensions becomes an even bigger question mark.
On a lighter note, as
@Nothingness already noted, Intel complaining about the competition not being fair with software optimizations is a sight to behold.