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For their EV, they have yet to make something that is competitive. Their EV is slow to charge, slow to accelerate, somewhat short in range, and quite expensive before they started adding—-in some cases five figure—-incentives to move them. It even had a recall for the wheels coming off.
This leaves us with 60W-68W unaccounted for at idle. Even in the worst case for i/o power usage that’s 75% unaccounted for.
I keep talking about TDP and load power because even in the case where the cpu isn’t using lower power states correctly for whatever reason, the i/o die cannot possibly be majority of the 80W power usage.
Source for power usage of i/o die:
1700 (same i/o die as 1300x/1500x): https://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-r...
5800x: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...
What I’m saying is that a computer with a cpu that is 65W TDP (from a time when amd’s TDP was close to being accurate as ~ max power consumption under load), the i/o die (which is part of that 65w TDP; which is for load) cannot possibly be the main reason his computer is idling at 80W. Especially when I linked an instance of a system also with a ryzen 1700 that was idling for 57W and with a similar configuration as an intel contemporary only being 7W greater at idle.
Note that it’s only 7W greater at stock clocks.