I think that performance per watt measurement ONLY applies to the budget end of the market. I'm not buying underlying architecture, I'm buying a CPU with a stat

I think that performance per watt measurement ONLY applies to the budget end of the market. I'm not buying underlying architecture, I'm buying a CPU with a stated performance. If you're buying budget parts and pinching pennies for electricity its certainly relevant. If you're choosing between an AMD 7950x and an intel i9-13900k, its stupid and doesn't matter. As I said before, the efficiency per watt is a youtuber number. Nobody who is buying chips really cares, or if they care they watch the youtubers who talk about it nonstop already. It's the youtubers bringing it up on top tier chips who are just out to lunch and not understanding the actual selling to a market and distorting things because of numbers they care about that class customers don't. I don't care what a 7950x does at 100w, because if I wanted that performance I would have bought a cheaper chip. It's a stupid nonsensical number unrelated to why people buy $700 high end CPUs. You don't buy that chip to save $3 worth of electricity.