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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 11 points 6 days ago

If they develop processors that hit the claimed frequency or a higher under the same TDP, then that means that that same processor can do more work with less energy.

Even processors today that can hit five gigahertz or more with overclocking do not constantly run at max tdp.