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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. 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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