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Soon I will relocate my PC outdoors, power consumption has skyrocketed over the last couple years and its now both CPUs and GPUs increasing YoY. The era of sma
by bearjaws 4y ago
Soon I will relocate my PC outdoors, power consumption has skyrocketed over the last couple years and its now both CPUs and GPUs increasing YoY.
The era of smaller form factors and increased efficiency is over for now.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y ago>> Soon I will relocate my PC outdoors, power consumption has skyrocketed over the last couple years and its now both CPUs and GPUs increasing YoY. I don't understand. Why will you relocate your PC outdoors? To help dissipate heat somehow?
- rat9988 4y agoBecause it makes his room too hot I guess.
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- sph 4y agoThey still sell low powered CPUs, you know?
- Latty 4y agoThis is just obviously untrue. You can run these chips with more power, but they automatically scale, so if you limit them, they'll still outclass current low TDP options. You might pay more for the privilege and leave potential performance on the table, but these are actively more efficient than past options, not less, you just can drive them for more performance rather than more efficiency if you want. Of course, having higher performance can actually be more efficient in some workloads, as there are cases where running for a short time at higher power draw and then reverting to a very low power idle state is better than running for longer periods of time at more limited power draw to do the same work. They explicitly list a 25% performance-per-watt gain. They push more power to get even more performance, but you can choose if you want to do that. They claim at 65w TDP Zen 4 is 74% more performant than Zen 3.