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Alder Lake is more power efficient under low to moderate loads, which includes all gaming. It's only less efficient under loads pushing it at 100% on all cores
by khyryk 5y ago
Alder Lake is more power efficient under low to moderate loads, which includes all gaming. It's only less efficient under loads pushing it at 100% on all cores when it's on a high power limit.
- wtallis 5y agoIronically, Alder Lake is only efficient when it doesn't have to use the E-cores.
- khyryk 5y agoIntel's (literally) doubling down on the Atom cores in Raptor Lake so they'll have to get it right for them to have a Zen 2-esque progression. CPU advances beyond the old +5% per generation are pretty exciting.