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Anandtech has a good review on the power. I really like that they go the extra mile and not the usual youtuber thumbnail of OMG GAMER CPU, TEST WITH GAMES.This graph shows the power consumption in comparison to all other relevant CPUs. They basically found that with PBO there's a hard limit of 88-90W for any AMD CPU that is rated for 65W on the box.I can confirm that the 2700X boosting will peak up to that 120W range, but the fact that 3700X now beats it in terms of overall speed while being ridiculously more efficient (~20W less than Zen+) makes me want to switch sooner than later. For the SFF community, AMD 3000 series means that we won't need coolers that were required for Intel's top of the line stuff and AMD's old hot ones - or - go nuts, and cram in the 3900X 12 core while using whatever CPU cooler is required for those said hot headed CPUs.
Anandtech has a good review on the power. I really like that they go the extra mile and not the usual youtuber thumbnail of OMG GAMER CPU, TEST WITH GAMES.
This graph shows the power consumption in comparison to all other relevant CPUs. They basically found that with PBO there's a hard limit of 88-90W for any AMD CPU that is rated for 65W on the box.
I can confirm that the 2700X boosting will peak up to that 120W range, but the fact that 3700X now beats it in terms of overall speed while being ridiculously more efficient (~20W less than Zen+) makes me want to switch sooner than later. For the SFF community, AMD 3000 series means that we won't need coolers that were required for Intel's top of the line stuff and AMD's old hot ones - or - go nuts, and cram in the 3900X 12 core while using whatever CPU cooler is required for those said hot headed CPUs.
