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Of course one reason you’d want a faster processor is it will “race to idle” faster and increase your battery life (longer life with similar battery / equal lif
by leokennis 7y ago
Of course one reason you’d want a faster processor is it will “race to idle” faster and increase your battery life (longer life with similar battery / equal life with smaller battery that’s charged quicker):
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/race-to-sleep https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/race-to-sleep
Of course there is an optimum between price, workload and battery life that will differ per person.
- makomk 7y agoRace-to-idle only means that it's often more efficient to run a processor designed for a given speed at that speed, complete the task sooner, and then power it down than to run it slower. That's because modern high-speed processors waste a lot of power via leakage just by being turned on. I think it's often still more efficient to design a slower, lower-power processor in the first place, and most modern phones have such processor cores.