6 pages of gaming benchmarks and not one compilation speed test. Baffling.
15 seconds to compile and run a Linux kernel of the time (64MB RAM required!).
Even with a fast SSD on my lowly i7, I often wind up sitting at IO or lock contention instead of actual CPU bottlenecks (although it could be argued faster CPU = faster lock release = faster compilation).
I do have 2 super SFF HP boxes that only take NVME in the M.2 drive so have one on hand but it isn't installed at the moment.
15000MB/sec, available now for $3119 AUD.
On one of these systems I'm fairly sure you could just whack the entire thing in /tmp and -j64 it, the compile artifacts aren't that big either.
So there's that. I'd give them a break with the fact they also had to produce the review for Intel's launch on the same day: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15039/the-intel-core-i9-10980...
On the other hand bench results have to be comparable and relevant (in time). Which is easy when you run the same still widely played GTA V year after year on every new CPU. But comparing compilation time for kernel version 3.11 (released at the same time as GTA V) seems a lot less relevant today.