Thanks for all the replies!
For those of you slightly annoyed by the fuzz about this issue, I want to emphasise that this thread is meant to be about marketing. The Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are excellent performers, whatever boost frequency is printed on the box. However, it would be beneficial to both AMD and customers if the marketing message is clear and no one feels cheated.
So far — yet with a small sample size — over 60% of the poll voters want the stated boost frequency to be achievable in prolonged workloads (Cinebench Single-Thread, as suggested in the poll). So what should AMD do?
- Cap the boosting behaviour. Get rid of the opportunistic momentary boost from idle and cold conditions, even if that means some lost opportunity for increased responsiveness and power saving. Instead limit maximum boost frequency to what is achievable throughout Cinebench Single-Thread.
- Keep the maximum boost frequency and the opportunistic boost behaviour for maximum responsiveness and power saving, but also specify ST Boost and MT Boost frequencies for prolonged workloads, as suggested in my original post.
AMD CEO Lisa Su has stated on many occasions that we would be surprised how much of the AMD commentary she follows, so perhaps she or others at AMD will take notice.