Soldato
Lets just focus on raptolake in this topic. There is no way in hell the 13900 is going to be less efficient than the 12900k. I'm talking iso wattage, or the 241 / 253 watts pl2 limit. Minimum difference in efficiency should be around 25%. Actually in one of their slides they showed 65w 13900k matching 241w 12900k.But you are missing is that most people at 'stock' was 241watt not the 125watt setting. So Intel with their spec sheet yes it would be more efficient out the box at 125w, however real world settings stock for 95% of people with the 12900k is 241w because of the mobo spec setup and so that is real world stock vs spec sheet stock that is being discussed.
Nobody moved the goalposts because everyone was talking about the real world using the machine etc. Not what Intel has decided is spec. The same point being out the box that means the Intel 12900k is pulling 241w and the 7950x pulling the 170w+ whatever happens to do based on the thermal limit ability to boost.
So to get to Intel stock settings you need to set the 12900k via PL1 in Bios 95% time and thus that means if you are doing that then you should compare the 105w or 65w of the 7950x or whatever Eco options are there then, because that is also click and play and not even in bios.
Yes Anandtech indeed are showing their score as 27k at 125w for the 12900k.
The 13900k would need to be showing a 50% improvement in efficiency to get there. Looking at the slides from Intel and what is happening then that isn't likely to change this gen from Intel just to try and get back on topic. Power has gone to 340w in boost ability to get this extra performance with it boosting to 5.8Ghz with leaks originally suggesting around 40k for that. I haven't checked if that still right but seems these are less efficient this time around to get max performance but likely similar efficient to the previous 12900k then at the lower power draw settings?
Its a more mature process with extra cores, it really cannot be less efficient than alderlake