It's less misleading than pre-Alder Lake materials that reported only a "TDP". Now most processors (except Alder Lake-N) have a base and turbo TDP listed.
No, it's not misleading. Base TDP is what the CPU consumes at its base clock speed. If you have a good cooler, it will run at its turbo clock speed for longer and consume more power. Turbo TDP for that same CPU is 250W. So what the chart shows is the machine they had it in had good enough cooler to keep the thing running pretty close to its turbo clock speed of 5.7 GHz for ten full minutes (they have it listed as 5.3 for some reason).
I guess I’m just miffed about why they even advertise a base TDP to begin with. I imagine most people buying high end silicon for gaming or production are going to be a lot more concerned about how much power a chip is consuming when it’s being utilized than when it’s idle or doing less demanding tasks.
Because it's the steady-state TDP under load unless you have a bomb-ass cooler. My i9-12900 won't stay at its max TDP of 202W for more than about 5 seconds because I have it in a cramped little mini case. I actually manually throttled it to 160W anyway.
People who do work care more about getting their work done than saving the planet. It's why AMD's 350W TR PRO CPUs are so popular. Of course, that's base. Probably draws over 500W when it's boosting. That said, if you don't want your CPU to draw a lot of power, you can just downclock it. It's trivial to cap that Core Ultra 9 at 5.0 GHz. The fact so few people do that should tell you how few people really care about power consumption.
Hell, just buy an Alienware and it comes downclocked out of the box
Caring about power usage in your PC is gay. I shoved a 1000 watt supply in mine so I wouldn't have to worry about any of that shit. Fuck the planet, let the coal plants burn.
Any x3D version you can get your hands on.
Base TDP of my i5-12400 is 65W, but realistically it's 117W when it turbo boosts at full power. Same applies to the Ultra 9 285K.
Anon doesn't know, his electric bills.
My microwave uses 1000 watts man. Not that a biggie. And I make sure not to leave it on 24/7/365.
I still don't get why you don't upgrade to a 12700k. Even Gamers Nexus recommended it in his 2024 roundup. It would pair nicely with your 3090. 12 cores in an 8P+4E setup, more versatile than a 5800x, hits 5ghz, and dirt cheap all things considered.
1. I like to have that AVX-512 for emulation and good luck finding a used Alder Lake that didn't have it phased out. Plus the E-cores were the culprit of Intel getting rid of it, the i5-12400 has none so it's fine.
ive left my computer on for months straight, only shutting down because i lost to the win10 update system or a power outage
Your CPU shouldn't be blasting up to 5 GHz while your computer is asleep, so it doesn't really matter what peak power consumption is in that case. Intels tend to have lower idle power consumption than Ryzens, though of course that's generationally dependent.
Guy already has a 5600X. 5700X3D is the only real upgrade to go with short of going to AM5.
Alternatively, 5600X3D if he's near a Micro Center, 5500X3D if he's in LatinX America.
