That's frankly a valid question, since the prior generation of AMD chips was really bad in this area. But the article has a whole page about power consumption.

That's frankly a valid question, since the prior generation of AMD chips was really bad in this area. But the article has a whole page about power consumption. AMDs TDP rating normally can't be trusted, because they compute it in very strange ways, but in this case the full load power usage of the 1500X is only 2W above 65W, so it checks out. The R3 1300X always stays below, and the slower clocked 1200 even uses a lot less. In general Ryzen's power consumption is not bad.