Could someone with a Intel Core i9-9980HK tell me what their Power Draw is when fully turbo vs base clock?

[jasonmbrown]

I need to know what the actual power draw is on the Intel Core i9-9980HK. Preferably as read by ThrottleStop. I am not looking for the TDP since that appears to be WAY off on my laptop, which claims to be 45watt but under full load throttlestop says i havent gone past 31.0w average of about 5watts.

Need to know what the actual power draw is so I can determine if the cooling on my laptop is capable of handling the 9980HK. Since its TDP is the same 45Watts as my current cpu.

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

Why do you need to know this information ?

 

[USAFRet]

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[Jmi20]

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This is a little off topic from OP’s current post but this is a very big undertaking. Would be very interested to see what the results would be.

 

[Jmi20]

What is your laptop? This may not be the specific answer you are looking for but previous macbook pros had intel i9 cpus, and we all know how minuscule the cooling solution is on those.

Though i think they use some software trickery to keep the temps somewhat in check, perhaps you could achieve the same results by undervolting… if you get it to work.

 

[jasonmbrown]

Laptop is an Asus Rog G531GT. If the cooling isnt enough, I got a guy who can add more heatpipes.

 

[Jmi20]

Laptop is an Asus Rog G531GT. If the cooling isnt enough, I got a guy who can add more heatpipes.

I couldn’t provide any technical insight, but I did a google search and it seems that its cooling is a bit better than a macbook pro with the i9. Which may give better results.

I do a comparison with the previous gen macbook because it has crappy cooling, yet it still runs the i9 9980HK (in the higher model) albeit with lots of thermal throttling…. Or not, i dunno for sure.

since you seem to be planning on using a better thermal paste (liquid metal), which seemed to have been the macbooks solution to its throttling according to the link i provided. You may really get better results. That plus some undervolting with throttlestop for instance might increase your chances of success.

I don’t think the problem is purely in the heatpipes of the heat sink but rather the mass of the heat sink material itself. Heat pipes transfer heat, but if you are trying to transfer the heat to a material that can’t hold and dissipate the heat there is no use.

 

[TerryLaze]

I am not looking for the TDP since that appears to be WAY off on my laptop, which claims to be 45watt but under full load throttlestop says i havent gone past 31.0w average of about 5watts.

So you are complaining that your CPU is using less power than it could?!

You should be looking at what software you are running and what results you are getting, if you are in line with benchmarks there is no problem.
TDP has to include AVX512 and the heaviest workloads possible on that CPU, if you never use those you will never hit that TDP.
As you can see prime95 small fft can use 30% more than your heaviest real world app, 45-30% is exactly 31W

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[jasonmbrown]

Im just trying to know learn what the actual TDP is of a Intel Core i9-9980HK under full turbo and load. So I can determine what modifications I will need to make if any to swap my cpu's

 

[TerryLaze]

Im just trying to know learn what the actual TDP is of a Intel Core i9-9980HK under full turbo and load. So I can determine what modifications I will need to make if any to swap my cpu's

The actual TDP is whatever you run on it, as you can see prime and cinebench have a huge difference between them.

 

[jasonmbrown]

... That really doesn't help me. I need to know what its power usage is under full load. How am I supposed to know if my cooling setup is enough to handle the i9-9980HK without some actual data on it? I don't want to upgrade CPU's then find out that my performance is gonna tank because I cant turbo for extended periods of time.
So I would like to know its absolute Max power draw assuming running prime95 Small FFT's, while processor is running at max speed (Turbo).

Edit:
I managed to find Power usage Benchmarks for the cpu running prime95. Found out it runs approximately double the watts. Will definitely need to beef up the cooling solution.
EG: TDP is 45 but Benchmark has it using 105watts under prime95 and 130 under cinebench