Review: Z590 Aorus Master

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 February 2021, 14:01

Tags: AORUS, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Benchmarks: Power Consumption

The idle platform power draw is 10-15W higher than when we were benchmarking on an RTX 2080, strangely.

Wonder why the Master pulls 91W more than the AMD setup? It has to do with Aorus making sure the Core i9-10900K runs at 4.9GHz on all cores, which causes power to escalate rapidly, all the way up to 219W for the processor alone.

F1 2020 maxes out the power by using a number of CPU threads alongside the RTX 3080 going full gas. In this respect, the Intel and AMD platforms are pretty much the same.