Ah yes fair point, my personal bias is showing a bit. I would consider numerics (AVX512 or AVX2) to be the main interest, and it is often what the type of works

Ah yes fair point, my personal bias is showing a bit. I would consider numerics (AVX512 or AVX2) to be the main interest, and it is often what the type of workstations I'm familiar with need. It also tends to consume the most power when run at full load by a significant margin. the 80-100% is bit of a vague number, I was just kinda referring to the cpu utilization as reported by the OS. For numerics I would consider a realistic full load 75%+ pipeline fill time on the AVX codepaths. With a lot of compute you can get quite close to 100% quite quickly if your software is highly optimized (and uses enough compute to hide the memory loads). TDP should just be 100% pipelined load of the highest consuming codepath. But my general point is still that these benchmarks should not exceed the TDP for these types of parts. For everyday use these loads might not be realistic. But for a lot of people looking to spend $2000(!) on a single CPU, these benchmarks are indicative of real life usage.