How did AMD make Zen 2 faster?

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:
@Pemalite how exactly do they measure eficiency of the architeture? flops/watt? time to execute instructions/flop?

By the amount of work over a period of time compared against total power consumption of the chip.

Flops isn't really used because it's an entirely theoretical number... And is only one part of a processor, it completely ignores things like Integers which are extremely  important for some workloads.
Any decent outlet will run a series of benchmarks like Cinebench, GIMP, Dolphin 5.0 render test, Handbrake, Ashes of the Singularity game etc' and grab performance and power consumption metrics.

Ryzen is efficient because the Ryzen 9 3700X can match the Core i9 9900K in the majority of benchmarks... But does so with much less power consumed.

Understood, so at least one of my hypothesis made sense.