13.4 mOhm Rds(on) — the conduction loss floor
The 13.4 mOhm maximum on-resistance is specified at 10 A drain current and 10 V gate drive. At 10 A the conduction loss is 1.34 W, which sits inside the 2.5 W package dissipation limit at 25 °C — the designer has about 1.2 W of headroom before the SO-8 package becomes the bottleneck. The 41 nC total gate charge at 10 V tells the driver what current it must deliver: at 100 kHz switching frequency the average gate drive current is 4.1 mA, well within a standard gate driver's capability.
