To be honest, I was kinda expecting that from day 1. AMD has been shying away from comparing the 6700k or the 7700k in the benchmarks which indicate that exact thing you're describing. It also further proves my point from the previous page about the hype for this chip is too damn high.
However, the chip's performance isn't bad though. It's no 7700k, but expecting it to be as good or better than that while pwning a 6900k in multi-thread performance was a bit of a stretch. It does well in integer and floating point now, but just sucks at Crypto (w/e that is).