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My 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 runnin
by trashtester 4y ago
My 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.