So it consumed "300W," reached 100 degrees celsius, and still did this:
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How many 5800Xs would you need to reproduce that result? How many 5950Xs? Sometimes, you wonder why people make certain remarks out of context. Anandtech has a bad habit of separating power consumption figures from the benchmarks from which they were derived. With the image above, now 292W doesn't seem so bad for the result. Does it? No other desktop chip can produce this result, except RKL, and by a country mile, yet it becomes the point of ridicule for a yet to be released chip, on a secret motherboard with unlimited power characteristics no one is familiar with.
And, of course, you'd have folks ridiculing AVX-512 and its uselessness for the mainstream platform. Well, that makes the power consumption concerns moot then, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the same critics of AVX-512 are mostly the same critics of the PEAK power draw of the chip. Amazing.