3 ms·
It's not useless. Higher TDP means more electricity and more heat. Running costs add up.
by driverdan 7y ago
It's not useless. Higher TDP means more electricity and more heat. Running costs add up.
- rubbingalcohol 7y agoTrue, you'd need a pretty good water cooler to run at max all the time. I would gladly trade electricity for performance though. A lot of the stage gates in my compilation are single threaded, so a highly-threaded chip that consistently boosts up to high frequencies would be worth it to me in terms of initial and ongoing costs.
- bjoli 7y agoFor AMD it is. They calculate it using a formula with constants that differ for each processor. Gamers nexus does a pretty good job explaining it: https://youtu.be/tL1F-qliSUk https://youtu.be/tL1F-qliSUk There are loads of videos on YouTube about how AMD 105tdp processors beat intel processors with a lot lower TDP