But 15% extra for frame rates in some scenarios is definitely a worthwhile increase, and the kind of PC owners buying freshly introduced Core i9 flagships with beefy coolers in high-end rigs are likely not going to be worrying much about power bills. Of course, we’re still only looking at (up to) 15% better performance relative to the best part of a 40% increase in wattage – or so the website claims – which may not balance up too well, especially considering that the power demands of the CPU are becoming a more sensitive issue as utility bills shoot through the roof (and the situation threatens to worsen by a worrying degree as time rolls on). Namely, the rumors we’ve already heard that there really is much more headroom for Raptor Lake to be supercharged to higher performance levels, and it’ll be less of a struggle to eke meaningful gains out of 13th-gen chips compared to current Alder Lake silicon (where it has been rather a case of diminishing returns when looking at more extreme overclocking). The difference with Raptor Lake is that Team Blue could be making it much easier to do so if this official performance mode really exists.ĭo enthusiasts who’ll fork out for top-end motherboards and extreme cooling solutions really need this, though? Well, we get the point that more casual users aren’t likely to go this route anyway, but it doesn’t hurt to make things easier and more convenient – and what’s more, it points more broadly to something else. And of course, it is possible to crank up existing Alder Lake Core i9 parts to much bigger power usage levels via manually tweaking things (using Intel’s Extreme Tuning Utility), if you have a setup that’ll cope with this. First off, we shouldn’t forget that we’ve already seen sample chips for Raptor Lake get pushed to hit high power limits close to 350W.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |