This is such a silly technical argument that I’ve seen twice now in this thread. Watts is just Joules/second. It’s entirely valid to wonder “what rate am I ‘consuming’ energy when I do X” rather than ask “how much energy did I ‘consume’ when I do X”

Making this correction is similar to telling someone that asking how fast they moved is wrong, and they should only ask how far they moved.

4790k was among the fastest per-core performance for many, many generations, even long after CPUs with 4x as many cores that could do 2x as much work total, 4790k could still beat them on single-core performance.

Tbh, this is testament for Intel’s CPU stagnation more than anything else. Hence, why they are getting cooked financially today.

Even today it’s still a great CPU and I’m still running one of my gaming machines with it.

Idk if I would call it a great CPU today when you can achieve roughly double the performance with a budget tier ryzen 5 7600. Not to mention that a 7600 will get to use ddr5 rather than ddr3 memory.