Power consumption:
As far as the power consumption tests are concerned, we didn’t modify anything and wanted to know how our configuration would react by default. Basically, we installed the CPU and loaded the XMP profile. Then we carried out our various readings and benchmarks.
For power consumption, we used the Cinebench R23 benchmark. This is a multi-threaded benchmark. The idea is to measure the average power consumption of our different processors. Please note that we’re talking about the overall power consumption of the configuration. At present, we’re not yet in a position to measure CPU consumption independently and correctly, but we’re working on it. We still have a few points to optimize before we can be fully convinced of the accuracy of our readings.
If our tests showed an increase in performance with this new generation, we had to assume that it would pay off at some point, and now is the time. There’s no secret about it: this 14th generation uses the same architecture as the 13th, with higher frequencies and consequently higher power consumption. Of course, it’s our i7-14700K’s that’s going through the roof, since in addition to higher frequencies, the addition of 4 E-Cores also weighs in the balance.
