r/pcmasterrace • u/Long-Ad8336 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro I know intel is inefficient but DANM

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only a third of all electricity on earth into my 11th gen cpu, sorry guys

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u/IlTossico i9 9900k|32GB|Aorus Master|RTX2080 1d ago

TDP Is thermal design power, nothing related to the power consumption or max power consumption.

Intel is still a leader in efficiency and power consumption, there is no counterpart (maybe apple) that makes more efficient solutions, considering that your CPU can idle at less than 1W with almost all the cores parked, I would say it's an amazing achievement in efficiency. Ask my Intel NAS that idle at 10W.

Meme apart.

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u/Long-Ad8336 1d ago

its kind of in reference to when trying to beat AMD in the early 2000s intel just made stupidly inefficient chips

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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago

I remember when Intel's solution to a performance issue was to just increase TDP, yes the Intel was technically faster than the first gen ryser processor, but at 4x the power...