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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its amazing the 9800x3d can outperform by so much even though its on a bigger node and uses significantly less power.

[–] who@feddit.org -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's a lot to like about it, but let's not ignore drawbacks. AMD's idle power consumption is still too high.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean, that's fair, but the 285k has a TDP of 250 watts compared to 120. In practice, I think that people gaming or doing workstation tasks would use more power on the 285k, because typically, that's what these will be used for anyway.

For comparison's sake, the EPYC 7702 is a 64 core (hyperthreaded) server CPU, and it has a lower TDP. The 285k's TDP is absolutely bonkers.

[–] who@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In practice, I think that people gaming or doing workstation tasks would use more power on the 285k, because typically, that’s what these will be used for anyway.

People doing "workstation" tasks or gaming with desktop CPUs also spend a lot of time in editor tools or basic desktop tasks, and seldom turn off their systems in between tasks. (Some don't even turn off their systems when they leave work or go to sleep at night.) And very few games will load up all the CPU cores at once. So idle power draw remains significant. Also, many/most real-world tasks have CPU cores constantly varying their power draw, not pegged at the package's rated TDP. So using TDP as a proxy for overall power usage is unrealistic.

It might be interesting to study the proportion of powered-on time spent at low load vs. high load in a typical week, across a decently large sample size.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 16 points 1 week ago

I don't who is buying Intel at the moment. The Ryzen CPUs are just too good. AMDs socket support is far superior too.