You don’t crank up the clock speed for massively parallel workloads like rendering in blender. Higher clock speed is for single threaded workloads that need to go faster.
Intel chips were sexy as fuck back in the 90’s. Too bad they couldn’t maintain.
tldr: diminishing returns on performance gain for power consumption
In one Blender rendering benchmark, the i9-14900KS consumed 31 percent more power than the i9-14900K for a less than 1 percent performance gain. The gap isn’t always quite that large, but the power usage increase is generally disproportionate to the performance increase.
it’s even worse when you also look at the 65w versions (which also don’t need elaborate cooling solutions. just a noctua or similar) of the same chip. 14900(f) vs ‘k’ vs ‘ks’
