Sunday, April 12th 2020

Intel Core i9-10900F Can Allegedly Pull Up to 224 W

As if reports of Intel's latest mobile flagship Core i9-10980HK pulling up to 135 W power in short bursts to achieve its 5.30 GHz Thermal Velocity Boost (TVB) frequency weren't bad enough, it appears like the 10th generation Core desktop processors won't win Intel any prizes in the energy efficiency contests. According to tech Tweeter "@9550Pro," citing Chinese enthusiast @Wolstame, with a reasonably high hit-rate with tech rumors, Intel's upcoming Core i9-10900F processor can pull up to 224 Watts of power. The i9-10900F isn't even an unlocked chip like i9-10900K, but rather an iGPU-disabled version of the locked i9-10900.

The i9-10900F 10-core/20-thread processor allegedly has its PL1 value set at 170 W, and PL2 at 224 W. The latter is probably needed to give the chip's TVB algorithm power headroom to achieve either the chip's 5.30 GHz TVB max frequency, or its maximum all-core boost frequency of 4.50 GHz. The latter could be Intel's strategy to take on AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X and 3950X in multi-threaded benchmarks (run 10 cores at 4.50 GHz). Intel is possibly looking to price the i9-10900 series (i9-10900F, i9-10900, i9-10900KF, and i9-10900K) at price-points ranging between $450-500, if not more. With these power-draw figures, it's all but certain that Intel could recommend serious cooling solutions for the i9-10900 series, at least a 240 mm x 120 mm AIO. AMD recommends a 280 mm x 140 mm AIO for the 16-core 3950X.
Sources: Wolstame (Weibo), 9550Pro (Twitter)
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33 Comments on Intel Core i9-10900F Can Allegedly Pull Up to 224 W

#26
Arctucas
*YAWN*

I have seen my 9900K register over 300W in HWiNFO during serious overclocked benchmarks.
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#27
trparky
FluffmeisterPeople don't care about power consumption on this forum, so pull the sticks out of your arses.
They’ll care when they see the electric bill.
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#28
candle_86
At least while your gaming you can cook a steak with a side of eggs.
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#29
Casecutter
And does this mean Intel will sell these 10 core i9-10900F for so much less than AMD's 16 cores 3950X? I figure since people think that products with better per/$/TDP indicate a premium does Intel realize they need to adjust pricing to be the second tier alternative? When the 3950X is like a $730 it feels expensive at north of $500 given the expense of and trade-off in cooling, while what would still appear to provide a detriment in performance. That's what manufacture need to do to sell second tier offerings.
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#30
Caring1
trparkyIs Intel going to provide a window air conditioner with the purchase of one of these chips? You're going to need it!
Desk sized chiller is optional, and sold under condition it is hidden under a sheet and you pretend it doesn't exist. :rolleyes:
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#31
GoldenX
FluffmeisterPeople don't care about power consumption on this forum, so pull the sticks out of your arses.
Excuse me, my good sire, but I do care about it. Here, have an HEDT 14nm Skylake.
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#32
hat
Enthusiast
Welcome once again to another "muscle car" era in PC hardware... at least CPUs. Performance matters most, so if increasing power draw is the only thing Intel can do to make a faster product, they will. You can bet AMD will do similar. However, lower performance, lower power chips will still exist.

Only when either AMD or Intel are very comfortably ahead, like Intel was before Zen, will we see TDP figures going down. When you're already performing ahead of your competition, that's when you get to focus more on efficiency.

Anyone know what a 5GHz 2600k would pull? I bet it's something similar to this. They're just pushing the envelope closer and closer to the limit with each release.
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#33
CandymanGR
HD64GA small difference (<20%) can exist between TDP and power consumption. Not double the figure. Then it is called misleading or even a fraud.
BS. It depends on the architecture and there is not a specific percentage.
TDP =Thermal DESIGN power, which as we all know is the, is the maximum amount of heat in a cpu that needs to be cooled. It has very little to do with power consumption of a cpu because simply not all cpu's have the same power efficiency.
The dynamic power consumed by a switching circuit is approximately proportional to the square of the voltage.
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