Really great article on modern CPU architecture. Don't be deceived by the domain name.

Good read.

Interesting that basically a decade or more of branch prediction improvements is worth a few percent in naive benchmarks of good-ness.

Also pay attention in these tables to how badly AMD missed the mark with their predecessor to Zen.

It's a little strange that the predecessors are being included in the comparison since they're both technically irrelevant and irrelevant in the market.