The reason they say that is because on say a 4770k, which people compare to the 8350, you have 4 cores, 4 threads, while the 8350 has 4 cores, but 8 threads, and is sold as an 8 CORE processor. Intel err supporters feel like this is false advertisement and make a big deal about how it must be worse, when in reality, you can actually turn off hyperthreading on an 8350 and overclock it like crazy, to a point where it dominates the 4770k in everything. So if Intel had 8 cores while AMD only had 4 but 8 threads, of course it would be much better, but in reality, AMD is like Intel but faster and with more threads, causing it to be good all around. You then get Intel fa-supporters saying Intel beats AMD in single core reliant programs, but if you disable hyperthreading with a couple options in the bios, you can overclock an 8350 much much further, and destroy a 4770k. Hope that helped.