The increase in power delivery will help the Ryzen processors in heavily-threaded workloads … apparently. Anyway, I don’t really mind as long as it’s faster and performs better than Intel 😀
Taken from Tomshardware … At Computex 2022, AMD shared new benchmarks and details about its 5nm Zen 4 ‘Raphael’ Ryzen 7000 processors and AM5 socket motherboards, but it turns out the company made a mistake: AMD originally stated that Socket AM5 would have a 170W Package Power Tracking (PPT) limit, meaning that would be the peak amount of power the socket could feed to any given processor. However, AMD has now clarified that the original number it shared is in error, and the peak power consumption for the AM5 socket is actually 230W. That’s a significant increase over the previous-gen’s 142W limit.
This equates to a 170W TDP for some processors designed for the AM5 socket, like Ryzen 7000, a significant increase over the current 105W limit with the Ryzen 5000 processors.
AMD issued the following to Tom’s Hardware:
“AMD would like to issue a correction to the socket power and TDP limits of the upcoming AMD Socket AM5. AMD Socket AM5 supports up to a 170W TDP with a PPT up to 230W. TDP*1.35 is the standard calculation for TDP v. PPT for AMD sockets in the “Zen” era, and the new 170W TDP group is no exception (170*1.35=229.5).
“This new TDP group will enable considerably more compute performance for high core count CPUs in heavy compute workloads, which will sit alongside the 65W and 105W TDP groups that Ryzen is known for today. AMD takes great pride in providing the enthusiast community with transparent and forthright product capabilities, and we want to take this opportunity to apologize for our error and any subsequent confusion we may have caused on this topic.” — AMD Representative to Tom’s Hardware (emphasis added)
You’ll notice that AMD’s statement doesn’t specifically call out the Ryzen 7000 series, but those processors will drop into the AM5 socket, so it’s fair to assume that we will see 170W versions. That’s a 65W TDP and an 88W PPT increase over AMD’s current flagships. This increased power delivery will help the Ryzen processors in heavily-threaded workloads, like the Blender benchmark the company demoed during Computex that saw Ryzen 7000 thrashing Intel’s Alder Lake Core i9-12900K.
The increased 170W TDP also means that we could see souped-up 12- and 16-core Ryzen 7000 chips with a 170W TDP for extreme users, while 105W 12- and 16-core models slot in for more mainstream uses.
Source: Tomshardware