Do you even look at the reviews you are posting?
The 11700k is faster than the 5800x in productivity even with power limits enforced and the power draw is barely higher than that of the 5800x.
Tom's chooses to use the lifted power limits numbers for the power comparison for absolutely no good reason.
Or there are different people writing the different parts of the review because it doesn't make any sense.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-11700k-cpu-review/2
Two things:
1) Nobody really cares about how CPUs perform on synthetic tests like Handbrake (and I say this going back over the last 10 years of CPUs, all the way back to 3rd gen Intel and AMD FX days). The gaming numbers are what really separates one CPU from the next. The synthetic tests don't translate to real world performance.
2) If you're going to talk about power draw, that's another one of those benchmarks that really doesn't start mattering until you get into the really minute stuff. In the overall scheme of things, having one CPU consume 30 watts more power over the other isn't going to mean much unless you're calculating how much power your new CPU needs to consume (ie deciding what wattage PSU to buy) or your electric bills. Power draw hasn't really changed much on CPUs, except for that even the most power hungry ones don't consume the same amount of power they did 10 years ago.
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