Intel has actually released the full information of the power usage of its brand-new Comet Lake10 th-gen desktop processors, letting us understand the main ratings for CPU power usage when pushed to the optimum increase speeds– which are very various to the base clock speeds (without any Turbo active).
It’s a little a lingo attack, but the power draw at stock clock speeds is known as ‘PL1’ (Power Level 1) and this was the only information Intel released when its 10 th-gen processors introduced, leaving some folks disgruntled that they weren’t being notified of the full spec and power usage when increase kicks in.
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At any rate, thanks to German tech site ComputerBase, we now know the specification for Comet Lake chips in regards to the ‘PL2’ figure, which is the max power draw the CPU can strike running