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Wifi 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 some
by dalore 7y ago
Wifi 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.