Originally Posted by
watercooled
I didn't actually check that page out. That whole paragraph makes no sense and contradicts itself. It starts of saying the TDP is meaningless, then praises the CPU based solely on TDP. By that logic, Intel could release a chip with a 210W power limit, come up with an arbitrary TDP value and suddenly it looks far better than it actually is in efficiency charts. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happened.
It's quite clearly nothing like a '95W chip' if we're talking about task power consumption, and that TDP cannot in any way be used to discuss efficiency.