The 235T trades a high base clock for 2.2GHz — can the power it saves on AI survive an all-core surge?

  It survives at idle and gives way under all-core load. The 2.2GHz base buys quiet, low-wattage standby while the 27 TOPS NPU keeps captions and denoise running all day on little power. Start a long job across the 14 cores, the boost climbs toward 5GHz, and the desktop power wall takes over, reclaiming the electricity along with the heat.

  For a machine that stays on with mostly resident AI work, the T version pays off. If you regularly saturate all cores for batch runs, take the standard-frequency part. Count the minutes per day you truly load this CPU: under an hour, the T earns its keep; more than that, the efficiency is a bad trade.