Thermal design power

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Thermal design power (TDP), also known as thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat that a computer component (CPU, GPU, or system on chip) can generate and that its cooling system is designed to dissipate during normal operation at a non-turbo clock rate (base frequency).

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