You will soon be able to set your own TDP (thermal design power) on all AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs for "cooler and quieter" operation. AMD is introducing the new power saving "eco-mode" feature to all of its ...

The next-gen Zen 4-based architecture was teased in a 16-core prototype CPU at Computex 2022, but then Hallock cleared some things up on Reddit. Hallock explained: "The Computex processor was a ...

Of all the metrics we commonly discuss at ExtremeTech, we'd argue TDP (Thermal Design Power) is easily the worst. If clock speed, core counts, IPC, and memory bandwidth are imperfect methods of ...

Intel publishes TDP figures for each of its CPUs, but the chip's actual behavior often doesn't conform to what this metric implies. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...