I guess my doubts surround how AMD generated the figures in the earlier slides; 50% less power at the same performance, 1.25x performance at the same power.
The former is entirely believable due to the node shrink itself; my quick calculation had it at a 44% power saving IIRC.
The problem is that 1.25x performance figure. Unless its a core for core example, it doesn't seem to stack up; i.e. it is way too low if a 16c 125w TDP CPU exists. On a core for core basis, it simply shows that doubling power results in 25% performance increase, which is more believable; 25% higher clock speed would take you to 4.6GHz, which is within the referenced spec turbo, but you'd be looking at 210w to run 16c at that speed.
IMO, they cherry picked the figures for their slides. I want to believe that you can get both at the same time, so that power efficiency and that performance improvement, but I'm not seeing AMD sell anything that'll need 210w to meet that. I'm not saying that they need to either, but I'm slightly dubious.
It could be that the 4.7GHz listed is a single/dual core turbo, and it probably is.
I guess at this stage AMD only need to offer >4.7GHz ACT on 8c CPUs, since even at the listed base of 3.9GHz a 16c CPU is going to take the performance King title.
Edit: I should add that if rumoured IPC increases (10-15%) are included in that 1.25x figure, then it works out more like a 9-13% increase from base clocks to ACT. That's 4.25-4.4GHz for 210w on 16c.
Not sure that can be right.