Zen 4: 170 watt TDP in Ryzen 7000

The saga of the 170-watt TDP in Ryzen 7000 is far from over: AMD has now explained and verified that 170 watts are indeed the TDP. As a result, the PPT is 230 watts.

However, the TDP and PPT of the Zen 4 create considerable consternation. Initially, shortly after the presentation, it was acknowledged that it was 170 watts PPT and hence, most likely, 125 watts TDP.

However, the documents contained contradictory information, and a question to AMD did not originally yield the correct answer. However, as it turns out, the US press materials and MSI information are correct.

AMD's EMEA marketing confirmed today that the Zen 4 has a TDP of 170 watts (Thermal Design Power). Finally, the PPT (Package Power Tracking) of the Ryzen 7000 is 230 watts (170 x 1.35 = 229.5).

That is far more than the currently available generation. However, you are aware that larger models, in particular, quickly hit their artificial limits. AMD has now sufficiently opened them up that they should no longer be a problem.

Historically, you had to go the additional mile for the final few MHz. Despite 5 nm manufacture, it appears that room must be made in order to bring Ryzen 7000 to over 5 GHz boost.

It is expected that the large machines with 12 and 16 cores, in particular, would have had to be slowed down significantly, resulting in a TDP of 170 watts. The range is still between 65 and 105 watts. The IGP, which is probably clocked at 256 shaders and 1.1 GHz, shouldn't be that important and should normally be turned off.

"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."