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Chipmakers Admit Your Power May Vary
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."
Performance being difficult to measure is well known- you can't go by clock speed, or even clock speed*instructions per clcok since these will differ based on instruction mix. For power, a simple inverter will use different amounts of power depending on if its on or off- exact power for a chip is impossible to guess. This is all old news.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
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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