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Well it doesn't really bother me if they have an end to end pipeline. Why shouldn't the top of the line CPU consume 250 watts? If AMD "overclocked" their existi
by StillBored 6y ago
Well it doesn't really bother me if they have an end to end pipeline. Why shouldn't the top of the line CPU consume 250 watts? If AMD "overclocked" their existing design up to 250W and 5+ ghz it would just be another part in the product line.
If you want the absolute best perf, they you buy it. Otherwise you buy one the less expensive, lower wattage parts.
- fomine3 6y agoBecause Zen2 chips can't be overclocked so much, and Intel *lake chips can be overclocked and Intel needs to ship virtually overclocked chips to make it competitive to Ryzen.
- StillBored 6y agoOverclocking has always been about eating into the design/binning margins. So sorta by definition if a CPU doesn't "overclock" its because its already overclocked. What intel is doing here isn't "overclocking" they are just tightening their CPU margins up to the same levels that AMD has. AKA, intel isn't overclocking their cpu anymore than AMD is. The only real difference is what the fmax of the design is, which in this case appears higher for the intel parts. Now if you want to argue about how efficient a design is at a certain power level, that is more logical. And its a semi interesting case (aka downclock the intel slightly so that the perf on a given benchmark is identical to the AMD, then measure the power utilization).