Hi,
There is an article on svethardware today that the boards for Alderlake have PL1 = PL2, ie that TDP is basically useless and the pigs eat over 220W as standard. The 125W is some average, when you sit and look at the static pages of novinek.cz. Ryzen runs on those 65W, in some super load not much higher. So if it has the power it has and the power, it’s a complete flop at a crazy price. It’s basically like taking Ryzen, overclocking it, giving it a bigger cooler, tapping 200W into it and saying how powerful it is.
I may be wrong, but the fact that Ryzen is at 7 nm compared to Intel’s 10 nm means that Ryzen is denser and smaller, so it’s much harder to cool than a large iCore. If Intel switched to a newer process, it would have a cooling problem, because even a 30% drop in consumption at the same arithmetic power does not make sense, so it would increase performance, the consumption would be the same and it would be a problem to cool a smaller chip.
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