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Ok. The Power Consumption of Ryzen 7 9700x threw me off a bit at the end. I wasn't expecting such a gap b/w i9 14900k.

Competitive Price, leading in most performance matrices with very good power consumption numbers. That really is a Home run.

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It would be nice to see the idle power numbers, including the motherboard. A lot of the time I'm using my home PC for light tasks (browsing, listening to music, etc). The idle power is likely to dominate unless doing heavy processing tasks or gaming.

Also would be great if a Linux-focused outlet would mention whether the power saving features of the platform work at all. The difference between the idle power of a platform that reaches deep package sleep states and one that doesn't is very large.

Power consumption can only really be compared at the same performance level (IMO) - though I guess it depends on if you plan to tweak the processor defaults.

One of my biggest bugbears is people using maximally clocked processors (such as the i9) as indicative of power efficiency in general. Processors use way more power for those last few hundred megahertz.

I don't think this release is all that impressive, tbh. Fairly minor upgrade all told, and not an upgrade at all for those of use who value performance more then efficiency (admittedly, you can eke out some small improvement via PBO)

The 14900k is a 24-core CPU. Don't doubt that "efficiency" cores draw current. The e-cores cluster alone can draw over 135W if you push it.

9700X system has materially the same performance and only a little lower consumption than similar 7700X system, which was released 21 months ago. It's stagnation like Intel 2010-2015.

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