This has better single threaded performance that M1/M2 by a significant margin, but at a higher total power. When the M1 was released I believe it has the fastest single threaded performance of any CPU. That is no longer the case by quite a bit now.
If power efficiency is a concern, you wouldn’t want to look at the absolute top of the line enthusiast-targeted chips.
I care greatly about power consumption in my laptop, but I don’t really care at all in my desktop. If they can make my compiles finish 10% faster by doubling the power usage, bring it on. My CPU is rarely ever running at these 100% usage levels, so it’s not like it makes a difference in my power bill. Modern coolers are plenty quiet.
anyone who buys a 7950x to run in eco mode is a fool, like buying a race car to go 30 km/h. The target market of the 7950x and the i9 are not people worried about their electricity bills.
There's the hope that this is just a stopgap measure from Intel to deal with AMD and Apple competition, and power demands go back to normal once Intel had time to push a couple of architecture improvements through the pipeline.
In a Laptop its quiete stupid to stay at 100w just to have a slightly better Performance. I mean its only a significant margin as Long as you can get the heat away, which is often the biggest problem in most laptops…
(M1 Max uses half the power for geekbench 5 and ~1650 and being a 2 years older chip. If the m2 max can hold the Power limit and still get to ~2k it would be fastly superior, i.e. the normal m2 is already at ~1850 With Less than half of the Power of the 13900t)
So it's more like putting a lipstick on a long dead design. Sure may look fresh from afar, but it still stinks.
What I am trying to say is that at this level of power consumption Intel should be many times faster than M1 - that is offering substantially better performance per watt.
Sure there are niche applications where power consumption doesn't matter and only the single core performance counts, but could older tech be overclocked and achieved the same result?
Not sure. Point being is that what Intel does is increasing pollution and causing people to bin perfectly working machines just because there is a "new" CPU on the block, where in real life they probably won't see a difference.
It's really irresponsible thing to do for Intel. They should go back to the drawing board and stop releasing meaningless products until they actually get something worth upgrading to.
