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Funny maths, "As you can see, in Cinebench R23, the dual EPYC Milan 7763's are 34% faster than the dual Ice Lake Xeon 8380's."

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Yeah, I also wondered about that, isn't it more like 52% faster?

Depends on how you define the math of "x% faster than"

The English language defines the denominator in your equation as the object of the sentence.

If you have 100 blue smarties in a bowl, and there are 20% more red smarties than blue, then you have 120 red smarties. There is no ambiguity.

I think that percentages shouldn't be used for things like this.

Show an absolute time, how many units/second of work.

percentages just (intentionally??) confuse things.

the problem is that %faster and %slower are not equal

Indeed, the EPYC is 52% faster than the Xeon, which makes the Xeon 34% slower than then EPYC.

(113000 - 74000) / 113000 = 34%

Yes, but that's the opposite denominator from usual. If I say I got 50% more apples from my trees this year, I can only really mean (this_year - last_year)/last_year = 50% (i.e. 1.5 times as many).

Incorrect. 74k should be in the denominator, that is what's being compared against (baseline).

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