Heat and power consumption

1. zoara - 6 June 2005

   So.

   Paranoid blather aside (note sig), how do Intel's current chips rate against PPC for power consumption and heat output per performance unit? Roughly?

   -zoara-

   6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.

2. zoara - 6 June 2005

   Oooh.

   http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000157045779/

   PPC = 15 integer performance units per watt
   Intel = 70 ipu/watt

   Sound reasonable? Sounds like nonsense to me.

   -z-

   6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.

3. Martin - 7 June 2005

   Previously, zoara wrote:

   PPC = 15 integer performance units per watt Intel = 70 ipu/watt

   Sound reasonable? Sounds like nonsense to me.

   Same nonsense that Steve was quoting in the Keynote - why do you think that it's nonsense?

   It's the reason you don't have a G5 Boko.

   Martin

4. PeterD - 7 June 2005

   Maybe it's the flops per watt that Apple have been relying on.

   Pd

5. zoara - 7 June 2005

   Turns out it was something Jobs said, but I suspect half a dozen of you have pointed that out while I've been offline... ;)

   Any meaningful comparisons anywhere?

   -z-

   6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.

6. zoara - 7 June 2005

   PPC puts out five times the heat of Intel? That's why I think it's nonsense. Though I suppose as it doesn't specify *which* chips from each family, it could be a comparison between G5 and Pentium M...

   -z-

   6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.