Power Consumption

Looking at the ability consumption figures when running the Cinebench R15 multi-threaded test I have to say the Ryzen CPUs don't look particularly fuel efficient. The 1600X pushed our total system consumption to 64% college than that of the Cadre i5-7600K.

All the same, we demand a bit more context. Keep in mind that the 1600X was almost 100% faster in this examination, so increasing full system consumption past just 64% to deliver twice the operation is actually impressive.

The 1500X wasn't quite equally remarkable equally its configuration consumed 66% more power while it was merely 45% faster. That'southward still non a bad result but the 1500X does wait quite inefficient in this test compared to the 7700K.

When looking at the power consumption figures for our Excel test, it'due south interesting to note that all of the system configurations had roughly the same idle usage at around 60 - 70 watts.

Again, the ability consumption figures on their own are a scrap misleading. For instance, the 1600X can be seen pushing system consumption 34% higher than that of the 7600K configuration and that looks bad, even so it did complete the test 62% faster, actually making it the more than efficient processor hither.

The same is truthful for the 1500X, it consumed 33% more than ability than the 7500 while delivering 61% more operation.

As is often the case, ability efficiency goes right out the window one time yous beginning overclocking and increasing voltages. If you intendance about efficiency then overclocking the Ryzen five processors might non be a desirable option. The operation gains were quite slim and yet we see the 1600X increase total organisation consumption by a staggering 49% -- hard to believe but it's true. The 1500X increased consumption past a more than reasonable xxx% though at best we only saw near half that in performance gains.

By the way, the 7600K likewise burned 42% more ability in one case overclocked despite but seeing performance gains of up to twenty%.