~5W. My 7840HS laptop idles at ~7W.

Isn’t that only because RDNA3 is available with that many more CUs? Afaik the per-unit and per-clock RT performance of RDNA3 is barely ahead of RDNA2.

So now he talks to his audience as if they were kids.

…who do you think their main audience is? It’s entertaining tech content for 12m subscribers. It should be plainly obvious that it isn’t for adult professionals interested in niche workloads and deep reviews.

This video isn’t even meant to be a review.

I’m sure the engineers knew, but yeah they’ll be trying to save cents. Gigabyte made the very same mistake on several of their Waterforce blocks for a couple years. There was a whole slew of users reporting stripped material and corrosion in their loops.