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0 pointsitvision6mo ago0 comments

Nothing, I'm making this up, except it's been confirmed by pretty much all desktop Zen users:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1brs42g/amd_please_tac...

I don't bloody care that AMD CPUs seem to be more power efficient than Intel's. For most people their CPUs are completely idle most of the time and Zen CPUs on average idle at 25W or MORE.

Many Zen 4 and Zen 5 owners report that their desktop CPUs idle at 40W or more even without the 3D cache.

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rkrisztian6mo ago

I can't confirm the 40W, my Ryzen 9 7900 (non-X) consumes 1W to 3W at idle on Windows 10.

itvisionOP6mo ago

Please post a HWiNFO64 screenshot.

I have reasons to believe you're making this up.

Not a single user has seen such low idle power consumption for desktop Zen AMD CPUs.

exceptione6mo ago

Could it be that that some cores are constantly being waked up by something?

I mention that since you seem to be on Windows, which itself has a hard time to just shut up, but that is also easily paired with bad drivers, stupid software and bad peripherals.

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rkrisztian6mo ago

Sure, it's reported by the Radeon Software, but I'll check HWiNFO64 soon and post a screenshot.

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rkrisztian6mo ago

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0 pointsitvision6mo ago0 comments

Nothing, I'm making this up, except it's been confirmed by pretty much all desktop Zen users:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1brs42g/amd_please_tac...

I don't bloody care that AMD CPUs seem to be more power efficient than Intel's. For most people their CPUs are completely idle most of the time and Zen CPUs on average idle at 25W or MORE.

Many Zen 4 and Zen 5 owners report that their desktop CPUs idle at 40W or more even without the 3D cache.

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rkrisztian6mo ago

I can't confirm the 40W, my Ryzen 9 7900 (non-X) consumes 1W to 3W at idle on Windows 10.

itvisionOP6mo ago

Please post a HWiNFO64 screenshot.

I have reasons to believe you're making this up.

Not a single user has seen such low idle power consumption for desktop Zen AMD CPUs.

exceptione6mo ago

Could it be that that some cores are constantly being waked up by something?

I mention that since you seem to be on Windows, which itself has a hard time to just shut up, but that is also easily paired with bad drivers, stupid software and bad peripherals.

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rkrisztian6mo ago

Sure, it's reported by the Radeon Software, but I'll check HWiNFO64 soon and post a screenshot.

2 more replies

rkrisztian6mo ago

Please someone flag the comment above for offensive language ("I don't bloody care")

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