This might be an unfair comparison — the AMD numbers are from a single benchmark, and the article is comparing this against the aggregated scores of the i9-9980XE. A few i9-9980XE multi-core scores on Geekbench reach higher than 60k as well, with the highest being 77554 multi-core.
dmix|6 years ago
Looks like a couple hit 70k+ at 3.00 GHz base [1].
[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13419502
Arie|6 years ago