Heat and power consumption
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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?
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6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.
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zoara - 6 June 2005
Oooh.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000157045779/
PPC = 15 integer performance units per watt
Intel = 70 ipu/wattSound reasonable? Sounds like nonsense to me.
-z-
6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.
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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
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PeterD - 7 June 2005
Maybe it's the flops per watt that Apple have been relying on.
Pd
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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?
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6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.
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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...
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6th June 2005: Hell freezes over.
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