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Missed something? You went in great details on your frightening experiments.Maybe my configuration / conclusion is flawed, so let me know if I have missed something here.
I don't think that your configuration if flawed. But Intel is hitting hard into a thermal wall. Here's a shocking graph from a Threadripper 7000 review, which used Sapphire Rapids as well as consumer CPUs for comparison:
Threadripper 7000 sticks to its stated "350 W TDP" down to decimals.
Ryzen CPUs stay within 130% of their TDP in actual testing (per socket specification, maximal power is 135% of TDP).
Sapphire Rapids ventures above 140% of its 350 W TDP , which brings it to 500 W.
And your Core i9-14900K ramps up to an absurd 343% of is stated "125 W TDP", above the Threadripper 7980X which sports four time the thread count(!), and not far from the Sapphire Rapids Xeon W9-3495X. This is the 400+ watts monster you're trying to tame…