AMD Ryzen: Power Reporting Deviation

[hwinfouser]

According to the tool tip: "This value has meaning under full CPU load only at default settings"

Does this imply that setting is completely meaningless outside of synthetic/full load? It's worded slightly ambiguously. (And seeing red numbers scares me)

 

[Martin]

IMPORTANT - Explaining the AMD Ryzen "Power Reporting Deviation" -metric in HWiNFO

Ryzen CPUs for AM4 platform rely on external, motherboard sourced telemetry to determine their power consumption. The voltage, current and power telemetry is provided to the processor by the motherboard VRM controller through the AMD SVI2 interface. This information is consumed by the processors...

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