What I find most interesting is the TDP per core/speed with the TDP of both parts being 99W range. My old core2due 2.4ghz affair does 65W for only 2 cores at comparable raw clock speeds. So for 6-8x more cores it's only an extra 34W odd. Ok comparing yesteryear to todays cutting edge is unfair. But the point being whilst clock speeds have not changed and cores have gone up, they have been pretty fairly balanced of with power savings. This is excluding extra power saving levels and options in that 7 odd year timeframe.
Whilst electricty demand is still increaseing, I do wonder at what time we hit the point when we hit a tech usage apex when these power savings become measurable at the demand level. That said I still wonder at home much electricty is was used on the SETI client project and the search of extra life out in space whilst adding to the carbon footprint upon our own `intellegent` planet. Still I still wished the processing for bitcoins was based upon actualy useful computational units - that too me is a market - but cluster cloud computing and trust of running data on external unknown systems is a hurdle on that one. Though for medical/reasearch that becomes viable and if BOINC was to reward blocks of work with a virtual currency akin to BITCOIN then I and many would be happier I suspect.
But certainly good to see AMD still pulling them out to the market and keeping Intel in check, albeit a relay race being passed onto ARM. Though that is a more open and diverse area, so good times and however AMD plays the future, I thank them for being there and keeping Intel in check.
Whilst electricty demand is still increaseing, I do wonder at what time we hit the point when we hit a tech usage apex when these power savings become measurable at the demand level. That said I still wonder at home much electricty is was used on the SETI client project and the search of extra life out in space whilst adding to the carbon footprint upon our own `intellegent` planet. Still I still wished the processing for bitcoins was based upon actualy useful computational units - that too me is a market - but cluster cloud computing and trust of running data on external unknown systems is a hurdle on that one. Though for medical/reasearch that becomes viable and if BOINC was to reward blocks of work with a virtual currency akin to BITCOIN then I and many would be happier I suspect.
But certainly good to see AMD still pulling them out to the market and keeping Intel in check, albeit a relay race being passed onto ARM. Though that is a more open and diverse area, so good times and however AMD plays the future, I thank them for being there and keeping Intel in check.