But at what temps/power draw is the real question? As a consumer it's not that impressive if it draws 300w and needs to be built into the side of a glacier to maintain a functional temp.
Like thanks Intel but I'll just wait the extra 30 seconds for my render to finish...
You don't go after high single thread to do renders...it's to make all the other stuff faster that can't use all available cores, and users that do need that will be very glad to get it.
Also they won't mind, even if it does have higher power use, because they don't use 100% of the CPU 100% of the time, so max power draw is completely irrelevant to them.
Sidenote:
You can get 245W out of an 13900k with a $20 cooler...
The Core i9-13900K can push even the most capable liquid coolers to their limits, but you don’t lose that much performance if you go with budget-priced air cooling.
www.tomshardware.com
"The $20 Assassin 120 R SE sustained 5055MHz (an increase of 333MHz) with the CPU consuming an average of 245W. This shows some of the improvements Raptor Lake brings over Alder Lake, as the i9-12900K only maintained up to 4900MHz while consuming the same amount of power - and required a hefty liquid cooler to maintain that speed in Cinebench. The score achieved here was 37,555 points, approximately 10,000 points higher than our i9-12900K scored with top-tier cooling. "