| Kynes said:
Not really. The relationship is quadratic with the voltage, it's linear with the speed. Your power consumption grows exponentially because you need to apply much higher vcores to reach a very high frequency, but the most important factor to the power consumption is the vcore. If you keep constant the vcore, a 15% lower frequency grants you ~15% lower power consumption. |
I'm not (generally) a hardware expert, but I didn't think there was any point to having a higher vcore besides increasing clock speed. I've always assumed that you change these in tandem.
While I accept that what I said was not strictly correct, I think my point still stands. It is not unreasonable to think that a Power7 processor with 4 (or fewer) cores running at 3GHz (or lower) could be used in a gaming console.
