Someone did a power analysis of the 13900K https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/10bna5r/13900k_po... and the CPU scales very well with power limit up to around 100W where the returns are rapidly diminishing.
Something that could've powered like half of an electric scooter at top speed. And GPUs are like 3-4 times worse.
There's no practical work being done in a CPU, it's just throwing away charge so it can redirect it around and do some calculations in the process, like a river flowing downhill with some mechanical logic gates in the stream.
I'm not sure we should be surprised - changes cost energy. Lots of clock pulses and lots of transistors change state at GHz frequency.
During switching both the n and p transistors in a cmos circuit are open simultaneously for a brief period of time. During this time you are essentially shorting your power supply to ground!
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