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Wasn’t 27W for the whole Mac Mini machine using a meter at the wall plug? So that includes losses in the power supply and ssd and everything else outside the ch
by willyt 6y ago
Wasn’t 27W for the whole Mac Mini machine using a meter at the wall plug? So that includes losses in the power supply and ssd and everything else outside the chip that uses a bit of juice whereas the AMD tdp is just the chip. I thought Anandtech said there was currently no reliable way to do an ‘apples to apples’ tdp comparison?
Edit: quote from anandtech:
“As we had access to the Mac mini rather than a Macbook, it meant that power measurement was rather simple on the device as we can just hook up a meter to the AC input of the device. It’s to be noted with a huge disclaimer that because we are measuring AC wall power here, the power figures aren’t directly comparable to that of battery-powered devices, as the Mac mini’s power supply will incur a efficiency loss greater than that of other mobile SoCs, as well as TDP figures contemporary vendors such as Intel or AMD publish.”