AMD corrects the AM5 platform power description: 230W Peak Power, 170W TDP
AMD said at the Taipei Computer Show that the native power support of AM5 has been increased to 170W. In a follow-up interview, AMD’s Robert Hallock said that the 170W refers to the socket power, which means the CPU’s TDP should be 125W, but this was a slip of the tongue and AMD has now corrected the mistake.
According to reports from tomshardware, a spokesperson from AMD told that it was wrong to say that Socket AM5 has 170W of socket power. The power consumption of the AM5 socket power is actually 230W, and the TDP of the processor is 170W. At present, the power calculation method of AM5 is still TDP*1.35=PPT (Package Power Tracking). At present, the maximum TDP of the AM4 platform is 105W, which means that the maximum power of the AM4 interface is 142W.
A higher interface power limit means that the processor can run at a higher clock, compared with the current AM4, the AM5 processor has an increase of 65W in TDP and 88W in PPT. The increase in power allows the Ryzen processor to work at a higher clock under heavy load. In the Blender benchmark they demonstrated at the Taipei Computer Show, the Ryzen 7000 processor beat the Core i9-12900K.
In fact, Intel has increased the PL2 to 241W on the 12th-generation Core i9, and the PL1 of the K-series processors is equal to PL2 by default, and there is basically no power consumption limit. Now AMD is just pushing the power of the new processors to the same level as its rivals. This 170W processor may be AMD’s attempt to launch a quasi-HEDT system on the mainstream PC platform, because the current Ryzen Threadripper processors have basically disappeared from the retail market, and they have basically turned to the Ryzen Threadripper Pro for workstations. Moreover, the number of processor cores, expansion capability, and bandwidth level of DDR5 memory of the AM5 platform can reach the level of the previous HEDT platform.
