Intel Meteor Lake Desktop CPUs Spotted in Presentation, Leak Indicates Core i3 and i5 Only

[JustBenching]

They are efficient but the performance ceiling at which they're still efficient is not nearly as close to topping charts as they would like.

Depends on the workloads. For extremely heavy mt, a 7950x is more efficient than the 13900k at iso wattage but not by a lot, contrary to what people think. The difference peaks in vray at 20%,but in most workloads it averages out at 12 to 15%. It's not a small difference, but it's not a generational gap.

But if you actually set aside extreme multithreaded scenarios and go for mixed workloads, intel knocks it out of the park, it's not even a contest. Of course that is because of the monolithic design, but the details don't really matter to the end user. My actual daily work requires lots of browsers excel sheets and the likes, multiple tasks but not heavily threaded. Intel cpus handle that at 6 to 12w, while zen 4 need 40+. That is one huge gap right there.

Gaming is the only scenario right now that Raptorlake suffers compared to the 3d parts in terms of efficiency. It's terrible, but thankfully you can always opt for an alder lake cpu just like I did

 

[Dristun]

Intel and 65w power draw... Is it possible?

Well, lets see performance, but weird to see only up to i5. Maybe by going i5 they do not want to overcome current i7?

Who knows - the rumours were they can't offer 8+8 or 8+16 in MTL because reasons and also that Arrow Lake that will bring those configs is closer than expected.

You mean the 6+8 i5 at 65w beating a stock 13700k? That's not happening. No way. And contrary to popular belief, Intel CPUs are actually very efficient, power limit your 13700k to 125w and youd be surprised as hell

Haha, well, it's all new nodes and new cores! I think if not MTL then definitely ARL should be able to beat stock 13700K at 65W, two generations is enough of a gap for a decent jump.

 

[LasTresorT]

I5's are fine for me, but after 2-3 months the new PC must be at the office. So the choice is between Intel RPL i5 and AMD 7600 (or 7700) non-X.

7700x seems to be a bit cheaper than nonX on market although the same performance with OC/PBO.
AM5 has a better future unless you already have some great B-die bins to keep and save the budget.