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Like I said, the Anandtech article has a lot of inaccurate information in it. Unfortunately the quality of tech journalism has taken a dive the last few years a
by magila 8y ago
Like I said, the Anandtech article has a lot of inaccurate information in it. Unfortunately the quality of tech journalism has taken a dive the last few years as most of the good writers have been hired away by the very tech companies they used to cover.
See this article on Gamers Nexus for a much better summary of the power consumption situation for Intel CPUs
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3389-intel-tdp-investigation-9900k-violating-turbo-duration-z390 https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3389-intel-tdp-investigat...
- DuskStar 8y agoAnandTech actually has a new article on Intel TDP limits out today: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13544/why-intel-processors-draw-more-power-than-expected-tdp-turbo https://www.anandtech.com/show/13544/why-intel-processors-dr... I would find it hilarious if this conversation somehow prompted it. Anyways, AnandTech's position seems to be: We test at stock, out-of-the-box motherboard settings, except for memory profiles. We do this for three reasons - 1. This is the experience almost all users will have. 2. This is what the benchmarks published by Intel reflect. 3. This is what damn near every other review site has done forever, and to do otherwise would make results less useful. So that's why their power draw number was 170W and not 95W for the i9-9900k - motherboard vendors take Intel's recommended settings and laugh. But so does Intel for benchmarks.