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> It does make you wonder when AMD and Intel double the normal CPU socket from 95 watts to 180 watts or so. could they, and still expect to sell? it seems hard
by sigstoat 8y ago
> It does make you wonder when AMD and Intel double the normal CPU socket from 95 watts to 180 watts or so.
could they, and still expect to sell? it seems hard to tell the data center and supercomputing customers that they're going to have install massively more cooling capacity.
- wmf 8y agoThreadRipper 2 is 250W and I don't see people complaining, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if K SKUs move up to higher TDP. In servers it's already rumored that Intel will increase TDP to ~300W per socket. This doesn't require more cooling per se, you just fit fewer sockets into the data center.
- paulmd 8y agoThese days TDP is a lie and everyone knows it. Both Intel and AMD are measuring TDP at base-clocks and their processors will happily pull another 75-100% over TDP while boost clocks are active, even without overclocking. The idea that you could run an octocore in the same TDP as a quad-core is obviously not correct, and it's largely because Intel and AMD keep pushing the baseclocks down farther and farther.