Customers are demanding a better metric for determining the power consumption of systems in order to better plan their data center deployments. For years, TDP was the guideline that was employed, but as more and more power saving features are integrated into the processor, the delta between the TDP specification and the typical CPU power consumption has grown significantly. AMD believes that Average CPU Power (ACP) is a better way of thinking about typical CPU power that more accurately reflects the power consumption levels that customers can see in real life environments.