tommyj27
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i've been digging around trying to find power consumption for different CPUs, i'm looking for something that doesn't draw a lot of power for a new server. the athlon 64 power datasheet (link) refers to Thermal Design Power, which it defines as:
can anyone confirm or deny?
and yes i am aware that there is some amount of subjectivity in the numbers
In layman's terms, is this a measurement of power drawn by the CPU? something that directly correlates to it? I'm also looking at some docs for the Pentium IIs that I'm using right now (the goal is to go for lower power use)(link). That info refers to the "Thermal Guideline" which i'm assuming is the same as TDP (more or less).AMD said:Thermal Design Power (TDP) is measured under the conditions of Tcase, IDD Max, and VDD=VID_VDD,and include all power dissipated on-die from VDD, VDDIO, VLDT, VTT, and VDDA.
can anyone confirm or deny?
and yes i am aware that there is some amount of subjectivity in the numbers