I would commend the author and the readers of the article to look at the the article I contributed to the AMD Red Team Forum:
Unfortunately I am not allowed to post the link to the article, but you can find it if you go to the AMD Red Team forum and search for:
QuoteUpdating my definitive guide to configuring the Ryzen 3900X/3950X and all other 3000 Series CPUs
The article is a detailed guide on how to
configure and not overclock a 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs (aka 3000 Series) and by extension the new 4th Gen Ryzen CPUs
Over the past almost one and a half years, the Tech Media and nearly all of the Tech YouTube sites (with some notable exceptions such as Gamers Nexus, Level 1 Tech, Buildzoid, Der8auer etc. who conduct extreme overclocking with LN2) have been either too stupid, too lazy or too corrupt to learn how to properly configure Ryzen 3rd/4th Gen CPUs.
For example I have seen a CineBench R20 Benchmark score for the 5950X of 10,150. The reviewer seemed impressed by this score.
Configuring the 3950X correctly I manage to achieve (staying within spec and not overclocking - whereby running Ryzen 3rd/4th Gen Ryzen at "Stock" is running outside of spec) a CineBench R20 score of 10,250.
So it is not really impressive when the "Experts" manage to get a score which is 100 less than that of the previous generation.