TDP 35 W Thermal Design Power (TDP) represents the average power, in watts, the processor dissipates when operating at Base Frequency with all cores active under an Intel-defined, high-complexity workload. Refer to Datasheet for thermal solution requirements.
Here’s how things look on the HP model above:
<span style="color:#323232;"> Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8500T CPU @ 2.10GHz
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> BIOS Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8500T CPU @ 2.10GHz To Be Filled By O.E.M. CPU @ 2.0GHz
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> BIOS CPU family: 205
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> CPU family: 6
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Model: 158
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Thread(s) per core: 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Core(s) per socket: 6
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Socket(s): 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Stepping: 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> CPU(s) scaling MHz: 23%
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> CPU max MHz: 3500.0000
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> CPU min MHz: 800.0000
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Obviously that thing wont be running at base frequency while idling. Here is one if units right now:
<span style="color:#323232;">analyzing CPU 0:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> driver: intel_pstate
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> maximum transition latency: 4294.55 ms.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> hardware limits: 800 MHz - 3.50 GHz
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 3.50 GHz.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> within this range.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> current CPU frequency is 800 MHz.
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See, it scales down to 800Mhz with a watt meter I remember it translated to idling at around 10-11W.
I never said it was better than a Pi, I just said the difference is not worth it and you’re still ignoring the fact that i5-8500T will be able to do a LOT more work than the RPi5 could do while keeping the CPU bellow or at 2.1 GHz - not surpassing the 35 W TDP.