Whatever it is, discrepancies clearly exist in his tests, so he is missing something, and most of the time it's due to clocks.
I mean this
Is you misreading the table. The P core is 25% faster than Zen3 according to total score.13900K's P core gets 1.98, meaning it's just 6% faster than Zen 3, which is not the case.
Which is also reflected in the table when looking at total score.Golden Cove is actually if anything very slightly faster than Zen 4
What you refer to as performance (absolute) is actually PPC. Unless your intention was to compare PPC, but then your wording confused me.
Also SPEC is a funny benchmark, as it's compiled by the user so not only you have to care about the system but also about proper compiler flags, and then maintaining up to date database is hard as compilers are evolving etc.
Funny thing, C&C was displaying abnormally low SPEC scores for one test in the FP part of SPEC2017 when they started running the benchmark, turns out it was a problem in Linux kernel, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-3888.9-Performance Not sure if they noticed.
Anyway what I meant to say with this, since the benchmark is so environment dependent, reading the scores, and comparing them among different people doing the benchmark is hard, as the score may differ and not because somebody is doing something wrong.