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I wonder if this game runs exclusively on the Apple processor's low power cores. Is there a way to find out? If so, this project could possibly be one of the be

I wonder if this game runs exclusively on the Apple processor's low power cores. Is there a way to find out? If so, this project could possibly be one of the best "watt to fun" ratios out there given how efficient the A series processors are! :) A side project I'd like to do one day is to compile this on a raspberry Pi zero and lower the clock rate as much as I can get away with so I could try to achieve the lowest possible power consumption to run this software. Just a silly idea since I love thinking about running things in a hyper efficient manner. Does anyone think this could run on some ARM dev board? I imagine something like the ESP32 is still not powerful enough. Anything in TI's inventory that can run this?

dcow 5y ago
Wouldn't the original N64 already achieve this ratio?
- after_care 5y ago
  Interesting to see that the N64 only used 19watts. I was expecting a much larger number. http://www.tpcdb.com/product.php?id=2602 http://www.tpcdb.com/product.php?id=2602
- nebula8804 5y ago
  The original N64 uses 19 watts(as printed on its power supply) to run a 93.75 Mhz processor. Actual usage may vary depending on the game. The Raspberry Pi Zero is less than 5 watts I believe? And thats a 1 Ghz processor with accelerated GPU. Plenty of opportunity to bring the clock rate down. Now what if you manage to run the game on bare metal? How low can you take the power consumption then? maybe 1W? Maybe less? I've thought about how to even measure this. I don't think those Cheapo tools on Amazon can go lower than 1 watt. We really benefited in so many ways thanks to the reduction from 350nm to modern nodes. I'm sure many will think its a silly idea but it came from this story I once read about the co-founder/CTO of Tesla: JB Straubel. Whenever he used to go to a hotel he would measure the power efficiency of the lightbulbs and actually replace them with more efficient bulbs. He was obsessed with extreme power efficiency. I also recall during the first Tesla AI talk that when designing their computer they focused on how many pJ each instruction burned. This story just remained in my head and comes up because the idea of optimizing down to this level just wrinkles my brain! :) [1]:https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=5196 https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=5196

dcow 5y ago

Wouldn't the original N64 already achieve this ratio?

after_care 5y ago
Interesting to see that the N64 only used 19watts. I was expecting a much larger number. http://www.tpcdb.com/product.php?id=2602 http://www.tpcdb.com/product.php?id=2602
nebula8804 5y ago
The original N64 uses 19 watts(as printed on its power supply) to run a 93.75 Mhz processor. Actual usage may vary depending on the game. The Raspberry Pi Zero is less than 5 watts I believe? And thats a 1 Ghz processor with accelerated GPU. Plenty of opportunity to bring the clock rate down. Now what if you manage to run the game on bare metal? How low can you take the power consumption then? maybe 1W? Maybe less? I've thought about how to even measure this. I don't think those Cheapo tools on Amazon can go lower than 1 watt. We really benefited in so many ways thanks to the reduction from 350nm to modern nodes. I'm sure many will think its a silly idea but it came from this story I once read about the co-founder/CTO of Tesla: JB Straubel. Whenever he used to go to a hotel he would measure the power efficiency of the lightbulbs and actually replace them with more efficient bulbs. He was obsessed with extreme power efficiency. I also recall during the first Tesla AI talk that when designing their computer they focused on how many pJ each instruction burned. This story just remained in my head and comes up because the idea of optimizing down to this level just wrinkles my brain! :) [1]:https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=5196 https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=5196