Damn. Intel is killing it right now.
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Comparing actual power draw of one part to TDP of another.
There's also heat density to consider.
The 12900k is turned up to 11 and difficult/expensive to keep cool in full core workloads....but fine for gaming.
The rest of the stack has been doing fine with cooling in general.
Damn. Intel is killing it right now.
Yeah. 150 watt is 45 watts more than 105 watts. That’s the heat load placed on the cooling element to dissipate.
The T parts are potentially looking really promising. 12700T at 35watt and H670 should offer some very impressive performance per watt figures.
Apples =/= oranges.
Keep trying though.
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Looks like Intel is already doing well without the T parts:
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Watts vs Watts. You can’t get anymore Apple to Apples. PMSL.
But the performance isn’t good?
Watts *actually used* vs watts listed in a TDP number are two different things.
The chip in the review was measured at 151 watts. Not TDP. Actual Watts. Lol
I knew you would walk into this. You are the nw Baghdad Bob of tech:
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Yeah, around 11600 performance. And?
That's nice. All Intel and AMD CPU's pull higher wattage measurements than their rated TDP.
Again TDP is not the same as actual power draw.
Again, 150 watts is 45 watts more than 105 watts.
"And" better prformance than the 5600X.
Great. You can do math with two unrelated numbers.
TDP and actual power draw are two different numbers. You know this, but I suspect you really just need to distract from direct comparisons of performance here, and thus persevere.
151 watts is what the part pulled. You need a cooler that can at least dissipate that. If that’s on the moon inside or out, it’s still 151 watts.
Hope that clears up any confusion.