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it's a perennial topic of discussion in the AMD vs Intel debate, so a lot of people do seem to care about it. And why wouldn't you, when it all becomes heat in
by paulmd 5y ago
it's a perennial topic of discussion in the AMD vs Intel debate, so a lot of people do seem to care about it.
And why wouldn't you, when it all becomes heat in your room? I'm not saying every single watt matters but, in cases where you're putting the M1 ultra at 40W against a 280W threadripper or Epyc... yeah that hugely matters.
- jltsiren 5y agoMany people don't care about power consumption precisely because it becomes heat in the room. They live in places where the need for heating is bigger than the need for air conditioning. In my experience, a ~500 W gaming PC does not generate any noticeable heat unless you use it in a small room behind a closed door. A 1450 W vacuum cleaner does, so I guess heat becomes significant somewhere around 1 kW of sustained power.
- fartcannon 5y agoThat's debate. That's just what you and me are doing right now. Useless internet fluff. When push comes to shove, and you really wanna shove something, you're not going to pick the most efficient, you're going to pick the best pusher available. And right now that's gonna be something by AMD or Intel with an (probably several) nvidia GPUs. Or you offload it to GCP/AWS but then the wattage of the M1 Ultra is still irrelevant because you could use a Chromebook to do that.