Power consumption:
As for the power tests, we didn’t modify anything and we wanted to know how our configuration would react by default. Basically, we installed the CPU and loaded the XMP profile. Then we did our various readings and benchmarks.
Regarding the power consumption, we used the Cinebench R23 benchmark. We are here on multi thread. The idea is to measure the average consumption of our different processors. Be careful, this is a global consumption of the configuration. Currently, we are not yet able to measure independently and correctly the CPU consumption, but it is in progress. We still have some points to optimize in order to be fully convinced of the accuracy of our readings.
We finish with a very positive note since the total consumption of our PC has nothing to do with that of the 7700X. We go from an average of 259.2 watts to 187.1 watts, which is really much better even if we are still above that of the 5700X. The lower performance can also be explained by the lower TDP. It is clear that even if the i9-13900KS is often at the top of the benchmarks, its consumption is close to 500 watts and we are on a benchmark that only uses the whole processor cores and not at all the graphics card.
