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> as well as other pure marketing tricks such as calling what used to be "Turbo Boost speed", the "normal speed" I always found calling it turbo boost speed od
by Guvante 13y ago
> as well as other pure marketing tricks such as calling what used to be "Turbo Boost speed", the "normal speed"
I always found calling it turbo boost speed odd. During the majority of applications that exist today that is the speed you will get.
- higherpurpose 13y agoThe point of Turbo Boost speed is that it's unsustainable, therefore you may only get it for short flashes of time. If it wasn't unsustainable, that would be the real speed of the chip. But they can't make these chips at 3 Ghz, and also claim 10W of power consumption. By using Turbo Boost, they have their cake and eat it, too. They can do well in benchmarks thanks to Turbo-Boost, but also do well in power consumption tests, because most of the time the chip will not be running at Turbo Boost speed, and will be throttled to "normal speed" as soon as it passes its power consumption limit. So Intel is being misleading by using Turbo Boost speed as the normal speed.
- Guvante 13y agoAh, I assumed the Turbo Boost was just due to the fact that if you are using all four cores you can't clock yourself quite as high.