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I was just reading about the Ryzen 7000 series and noticed the increased power usage for the 9-series, and it struck me how the industry seems to be pushing performance at the expense of energy usage and waste heat energy, which made me think of a flip-side question being Intel's ADL e-cores and whether they're actually useful, e.g. assuming that it's possible for say basic office apps, web browsers and Windows maintenance procedures to use E-cores exclusively then does it result in reasonably decent performance with a much reduced energy footprint? If that were the case then the P cores could just be used for 'big gun' processes like gaming and high-end productivity.
For me personally, my i5-4690k is absolutely fine for everything I do minus Handbrake, compression and gaming. If the E cores could be leveraged in the way I describe while bringing down total system power usage to a fraction of what my system currently uses, that would certainly be an interesting proposition to me.
For me personally, my i5-4690k is absolutely fine for everything I do minus Handbrake, compression and gaming. If the E cores could be leveraged in the way I describe while bringing down total system power usage to a fraction of what my system currently uses, that would certainly be an interesting proposition to me.