Power consumption over the benchmark course
First, we will start with the results of the CPUs, although these can also sometimes differ significantly depending on the combination of CPU and different graphics card. Logical, because a faster card will also demand more from the CPU, as long as it doesn’t run into its own limit. However, what we see at first glance is the absurd drinking behavior of the Core i9-12900KS. I ran this CPU with the same Intel defaults as for the i9-12900K, except this thing is really drinking itself into the ground. Same voltage specifications, despite binned CPU. This really goes through the roof and shows once again how superfluous this anachronism of CPU actually is. It’s time for something much more efficient. Tomorrow for example,, 😀
The combination of CPU and GPU can be seen more clearly in the next bar chart, where I set the GPU power consumption against the total power of GPU and CPU on the 12V rails (without motherboard and peripherals, only EPS and PCIe). We see the ominous alliance of Core i9-12900KS and the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at over 400 watts, but I can spoil, it does go over 600 with this combo in other games. That, in turn, is just sick.
The Core i7-12700K still wins in terms of efficiency, and it also delivers the power consumption rates in the partial load range and gaming that I rated so positively in the launch article. But I can already spoil that the overall picture will change completely tomorrow. Now that’s called a suspense arc and all…. 😉
Summary and conclusion
Even though this is only a small excerpt and still without the much longed for CPU, tomorrow you will all be smarter. But you can also see that the time is really ripe for a fast, but still efficient gaming CPU. And I can spoil it now: there were situations where the X3D was still faster with about 30% of the power consumption of a KS. I’ll leave that as a spoiler and order of the day for tomorrow and get back to analyzing all the data and exporting the graphics. This has become more than I thought (and wanted). But I think it will be worth it.
The performance crown is nonsense anyway, because you would have to test all current games to satisfy the statistics, which is not possible. But if you have approximately fast candidates with very different consumption rates, the overall package can very well be evaluated objectively and a winner can be put on the pedestal. Whether it will be LGA1700 or AM4 again will be known tomorrow. Until then, stay curious!
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