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To: KeithDust2000 who wrote (169726)	8/23/2005 4:46:34 PM
From: mcmab	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Performance/watt Well a lot of this comes down to what watts you're measuring. Given that there's a lot about turning off unused blocks within the processor I suggest that they are integrating the consumption over some time period. The watt then used would be an average figure rather than a peak. Thus to get a 5x increase in performance/watt is not difficult. It may amount to just a few % increase in performance AT a given frequency but a massive decrease in AVERAGE power consumption. That being said the door is also open for performance to be compared at a given frequency, say 2GHz, and NOT comparing the new architectures with the old Netburst. So how will the new processors, running at 2GHz compare to a Netburst at 3.8GHz?

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