The Power Consumption on the back panel is NOT always indicative of MAX Power! Ever wonder how your favorite manufacturer rates power consumption on their AV receivers and how it relates to maximum ...

The cores inside Barcelona, the quad-core chip coming from Advanced Micro Devices later this year, are going to lead independent lives when it comes to power consumption. The processor, which AMD will ...

Of all the metrics we commonly discuss at ExtremeTech, we'd argue TDP (Thermal Design Power) is easily the worst. If clock speed, core counts, IPC, and memory bandwidth are imperfect methods of ...

For years Intel has used TDP or “Thermal Design Power” to give a rough approximation of how much power a processor uses. While TDP actually measures how much heat is generated as a way of letting PC ...

Intel is revealing concrete specifications for the Panther Lake processors. However, power consumption is increasing in some areas.