It looks as though benchmarks for a 16 Core AMD CPU running at 5.2GHz has popped up on Geekbench. A quick search
finds this user is the person that submitted the benchmarks and the results are no doubt from
this system after a few changes were made.
And no, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you, the two thousand bucks chip with two more cores is in fact losing. But that’s not necessarily surprising.