While the consumption of AMD processors has always been very restrained, the lack of commitment to Intel’s most recent consumption and environment was Intel Core I9-14900Ka processor whose consumption was 300Wa real savage. With the launch of the range Core Ultra 200Intel focused on prioritizing energy efficiency above consumption. As expected, this movement has ended up seriously affecting the sales of this series launched to the market in the late 2024.
Knowing the consumption of a processor allows us to choose which is the Power supply what do we need and what system of refrigeration We must use. The lower its consumption, the more we save on the light of the light and, incidentally, the environmental impact is also reduced.
How much does my processor consume?
When we read the specifications of a processorwe find the same problem of always: the specifications are far from being real. The consumption figures are only approximate, since they depend on the Workload They have, but allow us to get an idea.
The best way to know what the real -time consumption of a processor is using the core temp. Core temp is an application that allows us to know what the processor temperature In addition to its real -time consumption.
The operation of the application is very simple. Once we open the application, we must do it with administrator permits, the application will show the processor modelthe platform and the number of nuclei and threads. Next, shows the frequency independently of each of the nuclei that the processor has together with the workload it has at that time.
In the lower part of the application, the average temperature of the number of processors that are operational, together with the minimum and maximum temperature they have reached is shown. Just at the end, in the lower right corner, is the consumption in w that the processor has at that time.
The higher the speed at which the processors work, not only the temperature of these will be increased, but also their Energy consumption. In the following image you can see the consumption it has when Fortnite is in execution (first image) and when it is loading a game (second image), a much higher consumption than being at rest with the Windows economizer plan.
The only negative point that the application has is that it does not allow monitoring these overprint values on the screen and to know them in real time we must change to the background application. What allows us to know is that information in real time from the taskbarwhere we can show both the frequency of the processor, such as power, temperature and RAM consumption.
Core temp is a free application that we can download directly from its Web page And that, in addition, it is translated into Spanish, so we are not going to have any problems when it comes to getting the entire game.
