Power consumption:
This is where we’ll see whether the promises made by Intel at the launch of the Intel Core Ultra 200S prove to be true. As a reminder, we used the solution offered by Benchlab, which allows the processor and graphics card to be monitored independently. For the test itself, we activated the Intel Default Settings Performance profile and enabled the XMP profile.
As far as power consumption is concerned, we used the Cinebench R23 benchmark and carried out three sessions in Multi Core to obtain an average. This will give us the power consumption of our processor as measured by the Benchlab software. We’ll also be adapting these readings for our upcoming graphics card tests. We’ll be back with a more detailed article on the software and how to use this Benchlab monitoring system.
The good news is that processor power consumption has indeed fallen compared to the 14th Gen, and that’s excellent news. This table also highlights the behaviour of the Ryzen 9000s, which also do very well indeed. Note also the difference in power consumption when we activate the 105-watt profile for the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X.