
If you try to open Intel's website, you can see that Intel's Base Frequency or normal speed of the i7-8700K is set at 3.7GHz and Max Turbo is 4.7GHz and The TDP is at 95W. Y es, and in the middle right corner of the picture you will see that the CPU now finds a yellow "Power Limit Throtting" as well. Note two important values involved, Voltage and Package TDP (Power in the ThrottleStop screen) that say Votage is now 1.24 Volts, and Package TDP (Power) is 114.6 (W). The picture below is an example of a CPU i7-8700K running at a speed of 4.7GHz, which is the Turbo Boost speed of the i7-8700K that Intel said by using the program ThrottleStop to run the test which use all 6 cores at the same time - Or 100% Load. Not to mention the amount of electricity bill! First of all, we need to know about TDP. However, it will be too hot and it won't be making any sense to use in practice because you will have to rely on very hefty cooling to make it work. Also within the circuit there is resistance (R) which generates heat, too. Some of these electrons had to be trapped by switches that made up a processing circuit known as transistors (now CMOS ) - which generates heat. The reason is because t he higher the speed, the more electricity, or more electrons, run into the CPU's circuitry in the same amount of time. It must be understood that we have reached a dead end in CPU speed technology for quite some time now.įrom the pictures (click on the image to view the original research) you can see that there was a period of time when CPU speed increased dramatically, almost linearly.


What does it mean? If summarized in a language that is easy to understand is that it will work at 4.1GHz in the case of a Single Core being used, which is in fact - a lmost never happened.

GHz - Low Power Ultrabook is almost as fast as a big Laptops for even PC!.īut if you ever try to open Intel's website, for example, the model i7-8750H, we will see a message written like this: Regarding Turbo Boost, this is quite a headache, because in the media we often see impressive numbers, for example, the i7-8750H has a maximum speed of 4.1GHz or the i7-8550U has a 4.0 speed. While the content is about Intel 8th Generation (it's when we experience the first instance of this "issue") all the information in this post still applies to all modern CPUs from both Intel and AMD.
