Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now

This is great for the price. My main complaint is power consumption. Intel is still delivering wonderful performance, but the performance per watt isn’t great at all.

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Post by doublepg23 » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 3:37 PM UTC

BirAdam wrote: post #5

This is great for the price. My main complaint is power consumption. Intel is still delivering wonderful performance, but the performance per watt isn’t great at all.

Is there a reason why people are so stressed over high power consumption in new CPUs? The majority of the time it wont use anywhere near that and I just accept it as a “stock OC”.

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 3:38 PM UTC

First 6GHz (off the shelf) CPU.

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Post by zbrozek » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 3:38 PM UTC

BirAdam wrote: post #5

This is great for the price. My main complaint is power consumption. Intel is still delivering wonderful performance, but the performance per watt isn’t great at all.

I'm generally most interested in performance at peak, and consumption at idle, since my usage typically bounces between those two extremes and spends little time in-between.

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Post by mrcwinn » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 3:40 PM UTC

doublepg23 wrote: post #6

BirAdam wrote: post #5

This is great for the price. My main complaint is power consumption. Intel is still delivering wonderful performance, but the performance per watt isn’t great at all.

Is there a reason why people are so stressed over high power consumption in new CPUs? The majority of the time it wont use anywhere near that and I just accept it as a “stock OC”.

I think the concern is scalability. A very high performance per watt is a signal that it the processor design will be difficult to scale practically.

Beyond that, at scale, is it good to have high-consumption computers all over the world before we have widespread renewable energy? Probably not ideal.

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Post by hulitu » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 3:42 PM UTC

> Intel recently demoed the chip hitting 6 GHz on two cores with standard off-the-shelf Corsair AIO water cooling

So only 2 cores. They forgot to say for how many microseconds can the chip sustain this speed.

And 400 A ? Per nanosecond or what ? Thank god it will mainly wait for I/O and has enough time to cool itself. /s