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by xbmcuser 2397 days ago
ah no Amd power numbers are usually on the money
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How will they manage to package twice the cores at the same TDP? (3990X vs. 3970X, both apparently rated at 280W).
The power consumption of an individual core can vary greatly depending on its clock speed (and voltage, which can be reduced when running at a lower clock speed). Putting 64 cores into the same TDP as their 32-core chip is actually pretty easy. If you actively use all 64 cores, they'll be running at a lower clock speed than if you were only using 32 cores.
binning the Chiplets helps them a ton with this