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AMD 'Venice' Core Shows Big Drop in Power Needs
dtjohnson writes "
Lost Circuits has carefully
measured the power consumption of four recent Athlon 64 cores and
has found that power consumption has been dramatically reduced in the
new 'Venice'
core from the relatively-low (compared
to Intel P4) numbers of the original 2003 'Clawhammer' core to less
than 30 watts under load and less than 10 watts for Windows at
idle. This huge power reduction was apparently accomplished by a
combination of 90 nm die shrink, Silicon-on-Insulator
technology, and something called 'dual-stress
liner technology' As Lost Circuits points out, power
consumption worldwide has been exploding as more CPUs come online and
the CPU power requirements increase so a significant power reduction
will reduce the burden on electrical grids everywhere."
Great, now my transmeta stock is going to go negative.
I would be a little paranoid if I had a 'Venice' core and was using water cooling, what with the rising water and all...
Wow...I figured that this wouldn't impress you much...:P
Because AMD wont bend-over backwards to cater to Dell's insane demands?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
They will end with my new *Ostrich Ommelete* project!
Your... insensitive clods!
So the cranking isn't totally free for those boxes, but worth it because I get to be cool and ranked in the top 99.725% (top 15k of 5.4m) of Seti contributors ;)
Um, you're in the top 0.275%, buddy.
-mkb
There are Intels.
There are Vias and Alphas, and then
There are those that follow Sun, but
I've never been one of them.
I'm an AMD user,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about them is:
Those processors get quite warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
An AMD user the moment the grid is drained.
Because
Every watt is sacred.
Every watt is great.
If a watt is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Surely he's in the top 99.725% also then?
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
P4 based laptops. Talk about your hot nutz.
Anyway the reason for scratching(head) is that my 3 year warranty on the Fujitsu runs out next July so I'll be wanting a replacement come next May, provided I'm still on the sunny side of the grass. Along with this has been a keen interest in glomming on to one of those new Athlon 64 puppies. Almost drove up to Fry's today for the $199 Athlon 64 3200+ including motherboard with SATA and gigabit ethernet.
Well now I'm gonna wait. Wait for a laptop with this new Venitian boatman at the helm. I'll have speed, long battery life, 64bits, and best of all a cool cucumber.
Where the energy goes:
1. Heat
2. The Internet (as information, which will eventually results in more heat when the information arrives)
3. Photons (LEDS, LCD, CRTs, other EM which again results in more heat when they are absorbed by matter. Some photons will no doubt escape the room, planet, solar system, and will result in more heat when they are absorbed by some SETI project somewhere)
This is just in time for my next Nvida PCI-E video card with two 75 watt auxiliary power connectors in addition to the 75W through the socket.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I have to say this: For someone who posts on Slashdot you sure know your shit.
"Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
Maybe it's somehow getting converted into mass. Have you weighed your PC lately?
usually, the one in the kitchen gets the most use, as it involves less stair traversal from the living room.