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Think of a data center situation though where you can get a ~50% power requirement difference for marginal performance decreases. The cost savings would be hug
by sanswork 16y ago
Think of a data center situation though where you can get a ~50% power requirement difference for marginal performance decreases. The cost savings would be huge even if you require more servers to make up for the performance difference.
For most home users I think you're right for now but for businesses it could be huge.
- pjscott 16y agoOf course, you've got to remember that which chip has the best performance per watt depends on the job. A sufficiently smart data center could determine this automatically and take that into account in its job scheduling.
- anamax 16y ago> Think of a data center situation though where you can get a ~50% power requirement difference for marginal performance decreases. 50% lower processor power isn't the same as 50% less system power.