What is the TDP power consumption of cpu?

TDP, the full name of thermal design power consumption, translated into Chinese refers to thermal design power consumption. Intel has the following explanation for TDP: Thermal design power consumption refers to the worst and worst-case power consumption. The cooling solution must be designed to meet this thermal design power consumption. Therefore, the power consumption of TDP is an extreme value, which belongs to the maximum value.

So the TDP of CPU is not the real power consumption of CPU. The real power consumption of CPU changes dynamically but will never exceed TDP. So we generally have a * * * understanding that the higher the TDP value, the better the general performance, because the higher the TDP, the higher the upper limit of working power and the higher the conversion performance under the same architecture.

Because TDP is directly related to heat dissipation, we can see that CPUs with low TDP are mostly used in mobile platforms, such as ultrabooks and tablets with 15W U series Intel CPU；; The CPU of medium/high TDP is generally our common desktop positioning. For example, the TDP of the Core i family ranges from 35W to 95W. The TDP that breaks 100 is generally exclusive to the Extreme Edition, and the Core i7-5960X is as high as 140W.

Since 265438+20th century, the two major CPU manufacturers have turned to TDP again and again. In the era of 130mm, 65nm, 32nm and now 14nm, Intel won applause at TDP. AMD only won the TDP war in the 90nm era of Athlon 64, and the rest were either tied or defeated. Until now, in the touching FX era, AMD CPU has been unable to get rid of the high fever and high impression in the hearts of DIY players.