Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
You don't just have TDP, you have TDP ranges, If you haven't noticed AMD has close to 100 different models rated at 65, 80, 95 or 125W TDP. A coincidence that all these chips has a TDP at these 4 exact numbers? Of course not, if a chip has a maximum power consumption of 69W, it's rated at 80W. And you know this. And for Bobcats AMD has only three TDPs to date, 5, 9, and 18W. That means that a processor rated at one of these can be anywhere between that number and the number below.

A T40N could be 1W away from being rated at 5W, and there is no way you could know if it is. Just as well as it could be at 8.9W.

That's why you can't do your comparisons and expect to get a useful conclusion.
Parts distribution based on power is what drives the TDP. If 95% of the parts would be under 7w then they would set that as TDP. The fact that they choose 9w it means most of the parts are closer to 9 than to any other arbitrary figure you've chosen ( the next range at 5w is for a single core no GPU device , hardly relevant ).