It is lying about its TDP a bit, because I see much more draw than the supposed 170W. But draw is still low enough that with a good cooler, it basically never exits that 5.8 GHz boost clock.
The definition of TDP has been mangled and it's not even the same between Intel and AMD. For AMD's case you should also look at PPT (Package Power Tracking).
I feel the same with mine, on Linux mint. Incremental rust compiles are under 1 second, and full builds take about 10 seconds. (16 physical cores for the win).
I compiled the same codebase on a home server using a quad core skylake cpu the other day. It took over 2 minutes to build the same code. If you haven’t upgraded for awhile, you’re in for a treat.
It is lying about its TDP a bit, because I see much more draw than the supposed 170W. But draw is still low enough that with a good cooler, it basically never exits that 5.8 GHz boost clock.
PopOS never felt so responsive before!