• finthechat
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    29 months ago

    tldr: diminishing returns on performance gain for power consumption

    In one Blender rendering benchmark, the i9-14900KS consumed 31 percent more power than the i9-14900K for a less than 1 percent performance gain. The gap isn’t always quite that large, but the power usage increase is generally disproportionate to the performance increase.

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      9 months ago

      it’s even worse when you also look at the 65w versions (which also don’t need elaborate cooling solutions. just a noctua or similar) of the same chip. 14900(f) vs ‘k’ vs ‘ks’