NVIDIA unleashes world's fast GPU

[Zappykins]

Soleron said:

Zappykins said:

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Perhapse not with Nvida or AMD, but it sure has with ARM and Intel's chips.  The next couple of years should show be interesting.

Didn't Nvidia show that in a year or two they will have a 40x reduction in power soon?  Here is an other Intel chart. They have a few Haswells that hit the 6.5 watt (total.)

ARM has only because they were late to 28nm. They should have had that in 2012.

Intel's Ivy Bridge was 2012, Haswell is not a perf/watt improvement, and Broadwell/14nm isn't coming to desktops.

Nvidia are known for outright lying on charts.

No, the Haswells will not hit 6.5W. That's "scenario design power", i.e. make believe "typical" use numbers. Even TDP is lying. Intel don't even publish true max power numbers any more.

Also, note PERF/watt. Simply lowering power by lowering performance does not count. Intel could make a 0.1W chip if they wanted, it just wouldn't boot Windows.

Sigh, not sure why you don't want to see improvements but here is one:  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-launch-low-power-version-172828668.html

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Teaser-Intel-Low-Power-Haswell-CPU-for-Tablets-370530.shtml

"Intel calculates TDP (thermal design power) through a set of benchmarks that include some of the most troublesome desktop and notebook chips. The SDP thermal rating uses a lesser set of benchmarks though, more appropriate for thin tablets, to determine average power.

This, AnandTech explains, allows Intel to set power ratings depending on the tasks that chips are aimed for.

Thus, a new Y-series Haswell CPU that Intel is preparing could have two ratings.

If one were to, say, run Furmark on the chip, and the PC doesn't thermally limit the processor, the TDP will be of 11.5W.

When using the chip like in a tablet, however, the TDP is of 4.5 or 6W, depending on SKU. Lower than the marks specified on the slide above.

Intel will release the Y-series unit and (probably) advertise it under the 4.5W thermal envelope, in the hopes of scoring more tablet design wins.

No details exist on the chips, however, not even an actual name. Still, this all goes to show that Intel's efforts to make its chips more power-efficient are paying off."