An Alleged Intel Alder Lake-S Desktop CPU Test Shows the CPU Running Hot, at 93 Degrees!

Intel's 12 generation processors are looking to offer a fantastic boost in performance, but with significantly higher power consumption and heat output!

[evilsatorii]

RTX 3090 Super with 450W+ power limit and i9 12900k seems to be good combo for winter

[choatus]

with the design, it is scalable to use whatever amount of power you want to use, the power efficient cores will allow it to sip small amounts of power, and if you want to overclock it then it will be able to use the full 250+ watts available to it. Sounds like a good thing to me.

[axe]

Beats AMD by setting your house on fire

[johnphamlore]

It's just a Chromebook Atom cpu welded onto an 11th gen cpu. The power numbers prove this. Do people really think Gelsinger had any time to change anything for a chip going into production only months after he took over? This was designed by the same people who were running Intel into the ground.

[Gindi]

Of course CPU cores will go to 90+ at 240W. This is not a problem. It is specified to run up to 100°C and boosting behaviour is adjusted not only based on power usage, but thermals as well.
If you dont want your CPU to use 240W: Simply adjust PL1 and PL2 in BIOS. The 125/250W are just default values. You are supposed to set your own limits based on cooling solution.
Also remember this is the K CPU. The standard model is 65W.

[saricubra]

PL2 and overclock =/= TDP or stock perfomance for power use + temps.

[xevilmx]

My PC will second as an area heater this winter.

[Eire]

Just like my 5950x temps at 83c with a EK 360 PE radiator it will get down to 55-58c easily

[heyguyslolGAMING]

Don't tell me things like this man. What's wrong w/ you? Just say its gonna have ballz to the wall power and that I should buy it.

[user]

just like zen3 test when it reach 119c ...i remember 2 years ago during ada benchmark stress test ..must be the same sensors amd use on the cores

[Nemesisism]

What are you reporting rumors or facts . clearly your way to the left. They aren't using that power range only DIY types will use pl2 with full water cooling for both the cpu 250 watt usage and for the GPU 400 watt power usage . If your a gamer the Cpu won't be running hot . The GPU will be unless water cooled . A well built system fans rarely ramp to 1, 000 rpm . For that type of setup providing your water cooling for silent compute, That's not cheap but it will be a performance monster. I more interested in over clooking the E cores for best results 4.2 ghz should be vary doable. Giving the E-cores better IPC than AMD at a lower GHZ, Intel did say E cores at same power usage gives E core 40% higher IPC than Skylake. FACT!

[asdf]

I think we're going to see more exploding Gigabyte PSUs pretty soon here.

[brownjonny]

Intel has to keep up with AMD processors performance. Considering Intel still uses 10nm for Alder Lake while AMD uses 7nm for Zen 3 and 5nm for upcoming Zen 4, Intel is a mile behind AMD in terms of power efficiency. Which explains why Intel mobos default settings are without any 'restriction', basically turning Intel cpus into electricity hogs.
Even with Intel's new Big-Little core design I highly doubt they can compete with AMD.

[silentbloodyslayer]

Those captures are pointless if you censor the cpu's name, it could be any CPU...

[paveldeveraux]

They just make a hybrid with 1 atom cpu and a I7 4770 older tech and give it a new name for a hybrid new CPU with a big/little setup that they copied from the current ARM CPU's and call it a day!...

[rurutuM]

doesn't really matter, if people want core performance they'll go threadripper. gamers won't be using 8 cores at 100% power so these power consumption numbers don't mean much.

[mylittlepwny]

Who cares about power draw? 250w is nothing. My 18 core 10980Xe runs over 800w and my 10900K pulls 375w when running Linpack. With proper cooling this could be a nice chip!

[franchellevanheerden]

Performance is one thing, but then again watt/power consumption and pricing is something else. I need more info to make a decision on.

[allansh]

It’s normal as die shrinks, heat gets more concentrated in a smaller area

[pilsen]

What a hot mess to maybe barely pass a 5950x. poor Intel hope they get their act together.