Power consumption:
As for the power consumption tests, on our side, we didn’t modify anything and we wanted to know how, by default, our configuration would react. 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.
This consumption is almost the extreme version of the processor since all the cores are used at 100%. In gaming, you will have a much lower consumption of the processor since many less cores will be used.
Explosion of the consumption but not in the good sense since on our first test we note an average of 464,9 watts during the benchmark Cinebench R23 in multi threads for the 13900K. This seems to us really huge compared to the previous generation even if E-Core has been added to this 13900K. After research it is because of the ” Asus MultiCore Enhancement ” option left in AUTO which removes all the Intel limits and thus seeks the best performance but at the expense of power consumption.
If we deactivate this option, then the consumption becomes normal, well still high but logical against the 12900K since it is then 381.2 watts. In terms of performance, on a Cinebench R23, we go from a score of 40626 to a score of 38466, a loss of 5%. The performances are thus very slightly lower but the consumption reduced.
Please note that this does not affect our results, as we have always tested other processors in the same way, but this is the first time that the power consumption explodes like this. Maybe this will be solved with a BIOS update.
