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AMD could cap the 7600X at 65 watts, would that make you happier? Perf/watt has substantially improved, as have capability (like double the memory speed, doubl
by sliken 4y ago
AMD could cap the 7600X at 65 watts, would that make you happier?
Perf/watt has substantially improved, as have capability (like double the memory speed, double the memory channels, and double the PCIe bandwidth).
Sure if power and cooling are available it clocks up higher, but you don't have to. Most BIOS will let you control the clock speed if you want.
- Tuna-Fish 4y ago> AMD could cap the 7600X at 65 watts, would that make you happier? Even more, you can cap the 7600X at 65W. All AMD cpus have configurable TDP, the advertised number is the default. Going above is overclocking, but dropping it is within spec. If you do it, your cpu will just use less power under load and be a bit slower.
- sliken 4y agoIndeed, the nice thing is power use grows quickly with clock, so even something like 5GHz vs 5.5GHz can allow a chip to run a fair bit cooler, and since there's various bottlenecks like memory latency that the performance difference will be less than 10%.