The whole "double the power of AMD" meme is an oversimplification at best. It's all based on a 12900K running a heavy multi-core load with an increased power li

The whole "double the power of AMD" meme is an oversimplification at best. It's all based on a 12900K running a heavy multi-core load with an increased power limit. This is the ultimate "I don't care about power efficiency" setup so it's kind of silly to knock it for drawing lots of power. If you care about power efficiency you can drop the power limit and still be very competitive with AMD. The only reason you don't see Ryzen CPUs drawing the same power as a maxed out 12900K is because if you pumped that much power into a Ryzen CPU it would explode (at least without LN2 being involved).