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Hah! Let me try a second time and see if I can be clearer.At least we agree on that last point.
But you did contradict yourself a bit on the first point, since you said they weren't correlated, for some reason. So did you say it, or would you never say it?
Power draw of a piece of hardware is correlated with the performance of that hardware. In general, less power, less performance, and vice versa. 100% agree with you.
However, the tests that were talking about don't actually control the power draw. The wattage numbers are just labels, they don't actually reduce the power draw of the test. What I'm saying is, those power numbers and those clock speeds in the test might not be directly related.
For example, let us say that 4.2W is, in fact, the target power draw on Drake for handheld mode. Totally reasonable. But the developer building NVN2 doesn't have access to Drake yet, it's still being designed. He is using a RTX 2060 for development. He wants to clock his RTX 2060 down low, to simulate Drake running in handheld mode. He picks the lowest clock his 2060 supports - 660Mhz - and that becomes the low power test clock, which is labeled "4.2 W".
In this scenario the two numbers are related. But they're not correlated. Meaning that we can't predict Drake's clocks from these numbers.
This is not the only scenario. I can imagine scenario where they are correlated, but the wattage number is just the GPU power draw, not the whole SOC. In that case, we can make predictions about the clocks, but we can't guess the final power draw (because that would involve information about memory and CPU clocks we still don't have).
Without more context, we can't know which of these scenarios is the correct one - or if it is a third scenario entirely
No apology needed. I definitely also misunderstood you at one point. I appreciate you being willing to keep talking about it while we both brought the temperature down.I feel the need to apologise because I think I've misunderstood you somewhere along the way, but I would definitely appreciate some clarity.