When life gives you lemons (broken CPUs), you make lemonade (idle power usage measurements)!

Unfortunately, it’s exactly as I predicted: The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D consumes 10-15W more power in idle (also active idle) compared to the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K.

The 12900K measurement is an entirely different machine, the 285K vs. 9950X3D measurement was done in this machine (only swapping Mainboard and CPU): michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/20

In practice, I need a working CPU, so AMD it is, I guess, but… :(

notes file showing idle power usage of my last 3 PC builds
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