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A comment on The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 at 65 Watts. Parent comment

Re:The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 5 7600 Re... by jeffbee on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:06PM (#34334199)
On the contrary, the other article at the top of Anandtech right now shows that the K-series CPUs don't benefit from higher power levels in games. As far as games are concerned they might as well be 95W CPUs.
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Re:The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 5 7600 Re... by kllrnohj on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:40PM (#34342538)
Anandtech sadly only tested 2 games in a fairly narrow set of parameters. If you look at 13900K reviews, such as this one by techpowerup: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-13900k/22.h... you'll see gaming loads where the 13900K uses well past 120w. Civ 6, for example, sits at nearly 190w.

But also again remember the 13600 non-K has much less L2 than the 13600k. It's not just a power/turbo restriction.

But we'll see for sure when the 13th gen non-K reviews happen. That Intel didn't sample these to reviewers isn't a great sign, though.

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