If you know how to use statistics to get a better view of the world, you have to accept, that one sample is not enough to get a good overall impression. CB (any version) is nothing more than a rough indication with two digit error margins.The update decreased Intels advantage slightly, but it was very minor. No issue since Cinebench is a nice benchmark that reflects real world. There is no favour for either Intel or AMD, it's a good
average value. You can be sure if AMD releases a competitive µarch in the future it will show up in Cinebench.
Otherwise it would be enough for review sites to post the CB scores.
But you are right that Intel's advantage in CB15 ST/MT shrinked a bit compared to R11.5.
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