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AMD is giving Intel a bit of breathing space at the lower end of the product stack, the 7600X price/perf isn't that great when you factor in the requirement for
by scrlk 4y ago
AMD is giving Intel a bit of breathing space at the lower end of the product stack, the 7600X price/perf isn't that great when you factor in the requirement for DDR5 + new AM5 socket.
- randtrain34 4y agoabsolutely, i3 and i5 Alder Lake is incredible value already and Raptor Lake will improve that even more
- Tepix 4y agoThe thing i dislike most about the 7600X is it's switch from 65W RDP to 105W RDP, a 61% increase!
- Already__Taken 4y agoit's a bit tone deaf given the energy market
- dispat0r 4y agoDon't look at graphic cards.
- trashtester 4y agoMy 3950 has an economy bios mode, bringing it down to 65 watts (for 16 cores). I expect the 7600X (and the others) will have something similar. If you're running linux, you can also override the cpu scaling governor, and either force the frequency down (or up), or you can set it to conservative mode. Conservative mode will preserve energy when the load is low, at an almost unnoticable cost to responsiveness, but still provide close to full power when the cpu is under real load. Under load, AMD is still going to be a lot more energy efficient than current gen Intel, even without such a setting. And on idle, the TDP is not really relevant.
- neogodless 4y agoCurrently have a 105W 5900X. Opening Visual Studio 2022 saw power consumption as high as about 68W for a blink of a second, but compiling a small web project only drove it to 30W. With my off the shelf Corsair AIO water cooling, it's usually around 35° C. For what it's worth! In powershell, running some python / dbt uses even less power, mostly dipping below 20W. Really takes a lot to make it work hard. I imagine some Cinebench would get it going!
- HeadsUpHigh 4y agoThe spike is normal and good, the cpu is supposed to ramp up for a bit to do the work before ramping down.