Intel Core I9-13900K Review: Hot and Hungry

Perhaps what you need to know:

https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/2552/bench/Power-p...

493W system draw under load with a largely idle GPU!

Under load, throttling after just 17 seconds.

Oh my, that's terrifying. Thought the 7950X was a bit too hot, then I see Intel's latest results...

I'm imagining what kind of monster AIO water cooler you would need to actually cool this. (Obviously air coolers are now out of the question, guess even a Noctua will fail to handle it.)

It's CPU review season again. This means most places will emphasize Cinebench.

Cinebench is a poor general purpose CPU benchmark because:

1. Heavily favors SMT/Hyperthreading

2. Heavily favors CPUs with many slow cores, over CPUs with fewer faster cores

3. Extremely popular today because AMD pushed it in its marketing when Zen1 and Zen2 were favored by Cinebench disproportionally

4. Unoptimized for Apple Silicon/ARM

5. Uncorrelated with gaming

6. Generally poorly correlates with office/dev work

Wow, makes the 7950x look good.

But it is interesting to see the benefit of DDR5 with 13th gen vs 12th gen.