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History will tell you that AMD and laptops don't play nice together. AMD CPU's have typically very high TDP's. However i am hopeful that AMD will change their

History will tell you that AMD and laptops don't play nice together. AMD CPU's have typically very high TDP's. However i am hopeful that AMD will change their ways from a crude brute force "moar power" approach (very high wattages/TDP's for performance gains) to a more finely-tuned, intellegent, and environmentally-friendly approach with higher efficiency (getting more performance per Watt/TDP)

tutanchamun 9y ago
They already have done that looking at all the reviews of their AMD Ryzen CPUs since release in March 2017.
DCKing 9y ago
You're out of touch on this topic. Firstly, AMD's newest architecture is competitive power wise with Intel's newest architecture. Secondly, TDP does not mean what you think it means. TDP is the maximum power a processor is designed to run at. It only tells you something about peak power performance, not idle power or average power perfomance. Especially not in modern processors that can idle at 5-10W despite having a 95W TDP. Laptop and desktop processors run well below their TDP specification 99% of the time. It's not a useful metric for determining power consumption. At all.
- laydn 9y ago
  Actually, TDP is the nominal expected power dissipation of a processor, and is intended as a guideline to design the cooling system. It is the intended power dissipation of the part when running "real (non-synthetic), expected workloads". A processor's actual power consumption can easily exceed the TDP. (Actually a processor's power consumption can SIGNIFICANTLY exceed the TDP)
  - noir_lord 9y ago
    Yep and TDP as a measure of cooling design is inexact anyway. My old bistro laptop was sat at 55C today and 85C two weeks ago, ambient temp today was 16-17C (I.e British Summer) and two weeks ago 30C (not British Summer ;) ).
astrodust 9y ago
Did you type this on your Blackberry? Open a newspaper from the last two years.

tutanchamun 9y ago

They already have done that looking at all the reviews of their AMD Ryzen CPUs since release in March 2017.

DCKing 9y ago

You're out of touch on this topic. Firstly, AMD's newest architecture is competitive power wise with Intel's newest architecture. Secondly, TDP does not mean what you think it means. TDP is the maximum power a processor is designed to run at. It only tells you something about peak power performance, not idle power or average power perfomance. Especially not in modern processors that can idle at 5-10W despite having a 95W TDP. Laptop and desktop processors run well below their TDP specification 99% of the time. It's not a useful metric for determining power consumption. At all.

laydn 9y ago
Actually, TDP is the nominal expected power dissipation of a processor, and is intended as a guideline to design the cooling system. It is the intended power dissipation of the part when running "real (non-synthetic), expected workloads". A processor's actual power consumption can easily exceed the TDP. (Actually a processor's power consumption can SIGNIFICANTLY exceed the TDP)
- noir_lord 9y ago
  Yep and TDP as a measure of cooling design is inexact anyway. My old bistro laptop was sat at 55C today and 85C two weeks ago, ambient temp today was 16-17C (I.e British Summer) and two weeks ago 30C (not British Summer ;) ).

astrodust 9y ago

Did you type this on your Blackberry? Open a newspaper from the last two years.