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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (59826)	5/27/1999 2:37:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572505

Paul - RE: "If memory serves me correct, about 158 % ! 18 watts for the old Pentium 60/66 and 40+ for the old 300 MHz Pentium II. But the 300 MHz Pentium II offered a 500% INCREASE in CLOCK SPEED !" Well, lets use the K7 600MHz for comparison because I used the highest MHz PII when it came out. If the K7 600MHz lets out 40% more overall power dissipation compared to the PII 300 at 100% increase in clock speed, then if we linearly expanded the line, at 160% (close to your 158% num) more overall power dissipation, there would be a resulting 400% increase in clock speed, or only 100% off from what you said the P60/66 to PII 300 did. And this doesn't take into account the fact that the percentage jump in clock speed was on average more with each new speed grade back then (5th gen) compared to now (6th and 7th gen). (66->75->90->100->120->133->150->166->200->233 VS. 233->266->300->333->350->400->450->500->550->600) Basically, I am trying to make the point that when going from a sixth to seventh or fifth to sixth generation processor, power dissipation is obviously going to increase.