Energy consumption …
The PC’s power consumption varies depending on the hardware and workload. We have listed a few interesting system configurations in the table below. Overclocking the processor and RAM can significantly increase power consumption. During the power consumption measurement, the ASRock B850 Rock WiFi 7 motherboard was in its factory default state. The power consumption of the test PC, equipped with 2x 32GB DDR5-5200 memory, a Crucial M.2 PCIe Gen5 SSD, a GT710 graphics card, a Seasonic TX-1300 ATX 3.0 power supply, and ASRock Steel Legend 360 LCD liquid cooling, ranged from the following values depending on the workload:
| Motherboard | CPU | GPU | Idle | Full load |
| ASRock B850 Rock WiFi 7 | AMD Ryzen 5 7500F Socket AM5 |
NVidia GT710 | 37W | 106W |
| ASRock B850 Steel Legend WiFi | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Socket AM5 |
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU | 33W | 201W |
| ASRock X870E Taichi | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Socket AM5 |
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU | 46W | 126W |
| ASRock B650E Taichi Lite | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Socket AM5 |
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU | 52W | 173W |
| ASRock B650E Taichi | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Socket AM5 |
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU | 54W | 158W |
| ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Socket AM5 |
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU | 59W | 163W |
| ASRock B550 Taichi Razer Edition | AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Socket AM4 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 56,5W | 318,4W |
| ASRock X570 Extreme4 | AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 55,6W | 273,4W |
| ASRock Z790 Taichi | Intel Core i7-12700K LGA1700 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 60,3W | 304,1W |
| ASRock Z790 Taichi | Intel Core i7-12700K LGA1700 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 42,7W | 226,6W |
| ASRock Z590 Extreme | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 44,6W | 243,8W |
| ASRock Z590 Extreme | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 31,6W | 101,7W |
| ASRock X470 Gaming K4 | AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 43,1W | 257,8W |
| ASRock X470 Gaming K4 | AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Socket AM4 |
AMD Radeon Vega GPU | 22,7W | 88,3W |
| ASRock Z490 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 41,2W | 317,4W |
| ASRock Z490 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 51,5W | 322,1W |
| ASRock Z490 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29,2W | 147,0W |
| ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 53,2W | 286,3W |
| ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29,7W | 235,3W |
| ASRock B365 Pro4 | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 41,3W | 280,4W |
| ASRock B365 Pro4 | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 23,1W | 193,1W |
| ASRock H370 Performance | Intel Core i7-8700K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 49,7W | 284,1W |
| ASRock H370 Performance | Intel Core i7-8700K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29,1W | 126,0W |
| ASRock Z270 Killer SLI | Intel Core i5-7600K Kaby Lake LGA1151 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 45,7W | 262,9W |
| ASRock Z270 Killer SLI | Intel Core i5-7600K Kaby Lake LGA1151 |
Intel HD Graphics 630 GPU | 34,8W | 117,4W |
| ASRock X299 Taichi | Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 82,5W | 345,4W |
| ASRock X399 Taichi | AMD Threadripper 1950X Socket TR4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 77,5W | 305,3W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1600 Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 52,5W | 265,1W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1800X Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 55,1W | 284,8W |
| ASRock Z170 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake LGA1151 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 50,5W | 259,1W |
| ASRock Z170 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake LGA1151 |
Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU | 36,0W | 70,7W |
| ASRock X99 Extreme6 | Intel Core i7-5930K LGA 2011-3 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 60,5W | 290,4W |
| ASRock Z97 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-4670K LGA1151 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 53,1W | 270,7W |
| ASRock Z97 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-4670K LGA1151 |
Sapphire HD6870 | 55,8W | 219,5W |
| ASRock Z97 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-4670K LGA1151 |
Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU | 33,5W | 94,5W |
| ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer | AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Socket FM2+ |
Sapphire HD6870 | 56,3W | 233,5W |
| ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer | AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Socket FM2+ |
AMD Radeon R7 GPU | 30,2W | 118,8W |
| ASRock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD A10-5800K Trinity Socket FM2 |
Sapphire HD6870 | 52,9W | 221,0W |
| ASRock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD A10-5800K Trinity Socket FM2 |
AMD Radeon HD7660D GPU | 29,4W | 120,4W |
How high the power costs of the PC are with or without overclocking depending on the performance and running time can be calculated with our interactive PC power cost calculator:
Interactive power consumption Calculator
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