>There are processors that exist which can hit their performance numbers without needing any thermal solution, and as such would have an "honest" TDP of 0, desp

>There are processors that exist which can hit their performance numbers without needing any thermal solution, and as such would have an "honest" TDP of 0, despite having a >0 power draw from the wall. Nitpick warning - I assume you mean that they are passively cooled in free air. They are still emitting heat into their environment. If you stuck such a processor into a perfectly insulated container, it would eventually overheat and throttle down. So it's really only fair to call them 0 TDP if you ignore the base "free" cooling. You could make the same assumption about power if you just stuck a solar panel on top (like a calculator processor) and then ignored that power input.