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Imaginedvl on 13 September 2020
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JRPGfan said:

or instead of all that mental gymnastics......
The more logical conclusion is the 3 sites you mentioned above (link) that claim the Xbox Series S cpu is faster, were just wrong.
They made those comments before microsoft announced the CPU speed of the S.

Sony have said the PS5 is 3,5Ghz is with SMT on, running full load (so the series X cpu is 100mhz faster).

Also supposedly the Xbox Series S also has variable rates...... the series X has locked clocks, the S doesnt.
(I Believe I read somewhere) (its just ignored or never mentioned)

No need for mental gymnastics (at least not on my part), you should probably read the rest of the response regarding what I posted after that which talks about the "always-on" SMT and this is actually where the variable rate is not, not the S... "SMT always on at 3.5ghz with variable frequency". Believing that then 3.5ghz is the average speed with SMT makes very little sense.

As for the links are the 3 first ones in the list when you search for it. Basically the whole industry is agreeing and virtual nobody is believing that the S CPU is slower. And yet, your "logical" conclusion is that they are all wrong and you are right. 

Oh well, maybe it is the case; after all, everything is based on assumptions so until this is proven (both ways) we can only go with what we know or read (as some specs are not really more detailed than a single liner).

And maybe when Sony says "3.5ghz with SMT on all the time with variable frequency" it means something else and the 3.5ghz is an average, not a max... Don't know.