AMD 'Venice' Core Shows Big Drop in Power Needs

Posted by timothy on Monday May 2, 2005 @08:17AM from the sippin'-along dept.

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."

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Re:It also make life easier for colo's + mirror by winkydink · 2005-05-02 08:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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Did it occur to you that it only seems that way because if you don't see the comment about the mirror, then you don't associate it with me? Hmmm?

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Re:It also make life easier for colo's + mirror by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-02 08:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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