That "15w TDP" is just the limit it will sustain. It regularly spikes over it, and by a lot, for 10-30 seconds at a time.
Or in Intel's technical terms the spec that they provide is the PL1 TDP. The spec that they don't provide is the higher PL2 TDP. Turbo is initially governed by PL2, not PL1.
> Especially when doing mundane things like a powerpoint presentation or watching a movie. in those cases the CPU consumes only around 5-8W on todays mobile processors.
And per the anandtech link you provided Samsung's specs for the 950 Pro NVME drive mention 70mW idle and 2.5mW DevSlp power draw, and anandtech measured idle power draw at 20mW.
This puts CPU power draw at 100X larger than the SSDs in the simple video & powerpoint presentation use cases.
That's not at all how Intel's TDP nor turbo works.
From the anandtech surface comparison I linked, the Intel part is the 15w i7-1065G7 ( https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/196597/... )
And yet, when hit with a multithreaded load it immediately shot to over 40w power draw: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15213/CinbenchR20MT.png
That "15w TDP" is just the limit it will sustain. It regularly spikes over it, and by a lot, for 10-30 seconds at a time.
Or in Intel's technical terms the spec that they provide is the PL1 TDP. The spec that they don't provide is the higher PL2 TDP. Turbo is initially governed by PL2, not PL1.
> Especially when doing mundane things like a powerpoint presentation or watching a movie. in those cases the CPU consumes only around 5-8W on todays mobile processors.
And per the anandtech link you provided Samsung's specs for the 950 Pro NVME drive mention 70mW idle and 2.5mW DevSlp power draw, and anandtech measured idle power draw at 20mW.
This puts CPU power draw at 100X larger than the SSDs in the simple video & powerpoint presentation use cases.