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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD confirms Ryzen CPUs for AM5 socket will indeed ship with TDP up to 170W

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-ryzen-cpus-for-am5-socket-will-indeed-ship-with-tdp-up-to-170w

"AMD would like to issue a correction to the socket power and TDP limits of the upcoming AMD Socket AM5. AMD Socket AM5 supports up to a 170W TDP with a PPT up to 230W. "

"The new 230W socket power will be almost as high as Intel’s LGA1200-based Core i9-12900K which has 241W PL2/Maximum Turbo Power. One should note that this 170W TDP value was already mentioned by MSI, even though AMD until now did not confirm that this is TDP. Meanwhile, AMD’s own slides only mentioned ‘native support for up to 170W’."

Looks like the wattage memes won't be exclusive to Intel anymore... One thing to note however is that 5000X series did not include an iGPU while the 7000 series does so naturally, it would sip more power. But of course, so did Intel CPUs when we memed them.

The igp plays a role into the increased power consumption, that's for sure, and I'm sure it's a big part. But those high clocks don't come for free...

I actually think it has to do with the fact that AMD CPUs with a TDP of 105W tend to pull quite a bit more than that at full load, generally 130-140W. Meanwhile, Threadripper CPUs actually don't exceed the 280W they're rated for. I think what AMD is doing is making the TDP more honest and like the real power draw, as they do on the Threadripper series.

Of course, the higher clock speeds and integrated graphics also make for the number to be higher than it would have been with the previous generations, where 140W would have been a truly honest TDP.