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by lazyjones 2397 days ago
How will they manage to package twice the cores at the same TDP? (3990X vs. 3970X, both apparently rated at 280W).
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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