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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by greggyb on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:19PM (#24726082)
If you're going to attack the "spec" that is TDP, you may as well do it correctly. None of the scenarios you mentioned align with what TDP is supposed to "measure". Even if TDP weren't the flawed measure it is, you still wouldn't be critiquing it by noting the measures you have.

Here's the critique you should use! https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3525-amd-ryzen-tdp-explai...

Nevertheless, for a given manufacturer, TDP is useful as a coarse grouping of power consumption.

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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by Dylan16807 on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:05AM (#24727851)
I disagree. If TDP wasn't so flawed as to be completely meaningless, that critique would probably be valid.

The definition AMD uses is absolute nonsense, given how much the θca values differ from model to model. If they fudged any harder the higher end CPUs would start having "TDP" lower than the weak CPUs.

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