QuoteThis 700+ W power consumption is reportedly with the power limits removed. So, expect a much lower but still significant PL2 power limit.

Precisely. Nothing more must be said. Case closed.

Quote from: Joew on Today at 15:02:34Threadripper 9980x has 64 cores, 128 threads, each with AVX512 enabled, and a total of 4 memory channels and a lot dmore PCIe lanes. This thing is a toy compared to that.

Oh, you already live somewhere at the end of 2026 so you have some insight into this Nova Lake 52C CPU toy? Drop some benchmarks please, I'm looking to see comparisons against the mentioned 9980X...

Threadripper 9980x has 64 cores, 128 threads, each with AVX512 enabled, and a total of 4 memory channels and a lot dmore PCIe lanes. This thing is a toy compared to that.

Almost like it's in the same class as the Threadripper 9980X (which draws ~600W with PBO). Oh wait, it is! What a "surprise". Yet people expect it to be like a Lunar Lake or whatever...

Buy a CPU, get a free space heater.

So it's intel being intel... again