[pingyong]

It's not an arbitrary number on Intel's CPUs either, it's just still not very useful. Or at least it's not useful as an indicator of some sort of technological progress. If you limit a 3900X to 3900 clock speeds and voltages, it's going to behave exactly the same.

[rowanG077]

Can you tell me the formula which will approximately give me the max TDP used by a recent Intel CPU based on its rated TDP?