The desktop Ryzen 7000 parts are still saddled with power-hungry die-to-die interconnects and an IO die that's built on an older fab process (though not quite a

The desktop Ryzen 7000 parts are still saddled with power-hungry die-to-die interconnects and an IO die that's built on an older fab process (though not quite as old as previous Ryzen IO dies), so the idle power is horrible. And the parts without the 3D stacked L3 cache will happily crank up the voltage to crazy levels in order to get the last few percent of clock speed. But if you cap their power/voltage/frequency to reasonable levels and look at the power consumed by just the CPU cores, it's clear that AMD has a very promising building block to use for their monolithic mobile processors. But I agree that AMD's marketing claims as filtered through low-quality journalism that doesn't even distinguish between peak and base power consumption is a poor way to judge whether AMD has succeeded in building a great low-power processor.