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The method AMD is using to determine TDP is unknown:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/33954.pdf, page 10

In order to know their method we need to know the following two variables:
1) thermally significant period
2) commercially useful software
Thermal Design Power (TDP) and IDD max are the limits at the highest Tcase max in the specified range for the
corresponding OPN.
Products conform to the TDP and IDD Max limits at all valid nominal voltages. The relationship
of Tcase max and Thermal Profile to TDP for a specific device is defined in
Table 26.
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