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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 w
by 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 agoActually, 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 agoYep 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 ;) ).