Intel Teases Discrete GPU - "Arctic Sound"

leadeater · April 13, 2018

5 minutes ago, porina said:

Is this that point in the thread where someone goes that TDP is not equal to expected power consumption? Doh, I just did it...

Yep, I leave TDP to cooler manufactures and move right along to getting actual figures

ScratchCat · April 13, 2018

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Personally I don't know when the last time I looked at TDP for Intel Xeons, it's just so pointless. Desktop CPUs aren't any better but I think X299 took the crown away from Xeons recently for the most "You are kidding right? That's not even close to reality".

The X299 i9 series exceed their TDP only by a noticeable margin when the motherboard alters the boost clocks i.e. "Multicore enhancement". Most boards do this, probably at the request of Intel in order to achieve higher benchmark results.

When overclocked there is no arguing the TDP will be left behind - i9 7980XE @ 800+W.