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Multi-core workloads in particular will be affected, as 253 watts of power isn’t enough to deliver the numbers we used to see when 320+ watts of power consumption was considered normal for a flagship Intel CPU. Single-threaded performance should be unchanged – or possibly even higher, if the Cinebench result above and my own experience with power scaling are any indication.

We don’t yet know how running at crazy power numbers (and voltages) has affected the long-term health of the 13th and 14th generation Intel Core i9 processors, but even if your motherboard vendor hasn’t provided an update, I think it’s time to accept AMD has faster multi-threaded performance this generation from its Ryzen 9 processors and lowers your power limits to a level closer to the 253 watt maximum is indeed determined.