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idle power draw on desktop isn't a major concern. When people talk about power draw in a desktop context its really an indirect way to measure heat. Managing th
by thereddaikon 5y ago
idle power draw on desktop isn't a major concern. When people talk about power draw in a desktop context its really an indirect way to measure heat. Managing thermals at heavy load is the most important consideration. And if your chip manages to win benchmarks by creating massively more heat in the process then that is worth noting.
In laptops idle power draw and heat are far more important because they effect system endurance. In fact most gains in mobile device power management are with lowering idle consumption not load consumption.
- e4e78a06 5y ago> idle power draw on desktop isn't a major concern It certainly is if you're a major corporate entity deploying tens of thousands of desktops idling 24/7. The 30-40W IO die idle cost adds up. If you're doing distributed rendering you're better off buying Ampere Arm CPUs anyways as they're more power efficient than any x86 offering.
- thereddaikon 5y agoThat's just moving the goalposts. Businesses aren't buying loads of gaming desktops with K sku cpus though. They are getting i5s or Ryzen 5s that do have low idle power usage. We were talking about performance chips.