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> you’ve got mobile devices without the computing power needed to deliver a great experience I can play call of duty on my mobile with graphics better than xbo
by dangerface 7y ago
> you’ve got mobile devices without the computing power needed to deliver a great experience
I can play call of duty on my mobile with graphics better than xbox 360, what are you on about?
> cloud computing that has all the needed power that’s too far away
The issue is mobile bandwidth not just latency.
> Edge servers are the middle ground
More expensive, less powerful and scales worse than the mobile, while also increasing latency and bandwidth the mobile just doesn't have.
Wifi is a bigger drain on battery than cpu so it will drain phones batteries faster not slower, this is truly a compromise thats the worst of both worlds.
- dalore 7y agoWifi is not a bigger drain than cpu when you're playing CoD on your mobile. Your smart phone now has multiple cpu's and would have a GPU. When you're doing something intensive like CoD it will fire up that GPU and suck up power. Wifi power used will vary with a few factors, how far you away from the station, how many other wifi signals, etc. In addition a big bright screen uses a lot more power than wifi. But that would be used either way so not part of the comparison.
- folex 7y agoAgreed. Also, it looks to me that paper's idea intended to be used for batch (or, at least, batchable) computations, where you submit data, and then retrieve the result. In that case, Wi-Fi isn't used intensively, only for data transmission, meaning it could be idle during computation. So the power savings could be relatively big.
- jotm 7y ago> I can play call of duty on my mobile with graphics better than xbox 360 I noticed graphics on smartphones are pretty damn great (I don't play mobile games) these days. So, the Snapdragon 855+ has a GPU that does 1030 GFLOPS, which is very close to the XBox One (1300 GFLOPS), at a fraction of the power usage. Amazing!