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Chipmakers Admit Your Power May Vary

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mileage-too dept.

Dylan Knight Rogers writes to mention a News.com story discussing the realities of chip power consumption. From the article: "Assessing only pure performance is passe. The debate these days is about performance-per-watt, which seems like it should be a simple miles-per-gallon type of calculation. However, miles are miles, and gallons are gallons. There's no one simple way to measure processor performance, and measuring the amount of power output by today's chips is proving just as difficult."

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  1. Not indicative of real world performance by 0racle · · Score: 4, Funny

    So it's exactly like the miles-per-gallon on new cars.

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  2. Re:Just as well... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    May Heisenberg will protect us!

    I have no idea what direction you are going with this. I have, however, determined exactly how fast you are going with this.

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  3. What a day. by fuzzyfozzie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dvorak admits he trolls, Chipmakers admit your power may be vary, what's next?
    Looks like everyone's coming out of the closet today.

    1. Re:What a day. by Mark+Maughan · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pope admits...

  4. Re:It's not just the CPU by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    like the 2007 Camry (available wherever fine cars are sold,) after a long day your ass is going to be a lot more comfortable.

    My ass has never been as comfortable as it was in my '67 Triumph GT6. Don't ask about my right leg resting against the tranny case though.

    When I wear shorts I just tell people it came from shrapnel at Anzio.

    KFG