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Back in those days, Intel simply did not care one iota about power consumption. The P4 processors were absolute power hogs, and all Intel did was brag about ho
by magduf 7y ago
Back in those days, Intel simply did not care one iota about power consumption. The P4 processors were absolute power hogs, and all Intel did was brag about how great their memory bandwidth to the RAMBUS memory was.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoThe last Pentium 4 was released in 2008; the Xeon E5-2667 v2 parts discussed in the article were released in 2013, years after Intel abandoned their Netburst approach.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoXeons are usually a generation behind on process and sometimes other technology as well.
- ericd 7y agoBe that as it may, that Xeon is post Nehalem, it’s not at all related to Netburst. Netburst was an evolutionary dead end.
- jotm 7y agoOh yeah, back in those, uh, Westmere/Sandy/Ivy/Haswell days. The days when power consumption was given priority over even performance.