Blog: Raw Power - Again

Hermeling_lg

Nice
blog post from Ed Sperling on the performance of modern day processors.
Some interesting tidbits from his post:

  • A Xeon on 3.46 Ghz uses up to 130 Watt, bring this down to 2.66 Ghz
    and you drop 50 Watt to 80 Watt. This is how a chip with multiple
    cores running at a lower frequency can deliver more performance per
    watt.

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