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The high temps i'm sure can be mitigated with good cooling, but what about the high power consumption? Surely that's a strike against it.
The limits imposed by Intel are for competition: they are uncharacteristically high compared to Intel's established expectation. Up until recently, the i5 series was the best bang for buck (synth score/USD) but now it's a bit more convoluted.
If and when I move to a BIGlittle chip I'll be creating BIOS profiles with either all P or all E cores disabled depending on the task at hand. For each of those profiles I'll have an A and B set for each, one with turbo disabled and one with an optimal voltage/clock ratio laying +500MHz below max turbo. Always C-state enable these days as it's not like the 4K series when switching Cstates caused a noticeable lag when jumping from min to max.
Power consumption figures are kinda misleading because most of them use synthetic benchmarks instead of realistic gaming load, this goes for all the mid-range/high end LGA1700 chips
Techpowerup does have a separate category for gaming power consumption, and their review puts the 13600k at 74w on stock settings while 7700 draws 58w and 7600 draws 47w across the same games, so it's definitely worse but not the enormous difference you see on written down specs
And Intel cpus have a big advantage over AMD when it comes to light tasks, they can do stuff like web browsing, watching videos etc. at a very minimal power draw (5-10w) while AMD chips idle at 30-35w as a baseline because of the chiplet design, this is actually my main worry about 15th gen from intel since they're reportedly switching to chiplet as well
Interesting. So I own a 13600k, but I don't have the rest of my build yet. Black Friday is the plan for that.
I know it's possible to undervolt the CPU and I will more than likely do this. Is it possible to undervolt and overclock? And get better performance AND lower power draw?
I will say I didn't know that about Intel but being one who also does a lot of desktop/browser stuff as well as productivity and gaming that's kind of nice to know.
It's why I ultimately went Intel again this time (Well that's and that's where I got the best deal lol. It was honestly okay with either Intel or AMD). They do seem the most well rounded though, with the only drawback being the power draw/temps as far as I knew, which I do consider to be a bit unfortunate.