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smbu2000 on 26 July 2013
haxxiy said:

He doesn't, for they aren't. There are other different components, too, and a quick search over the net showcases how the battery life spent ob various tasks remain just about the same.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/11/teardown-of-new-mid-2013-macbook-air-reveals-smaller-ssd-increased-battery-capacity/

Amazing for how long after Jobs has died the reality distortion field will still work huh.

The increase in battery size was pretty insignificant at only 6% or 7%. The increase in battery life was 70%! The majority of that is from the Haswell cpu, which is clocked lower than last years IB cpu but still gives roughly the same performance.

They updated the SSS, which improves performance and added support for ac wireless, nothing really relating to power consumption. 




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mrstickball on 26 July 2013

Pretty neat stuff, but you won't see anything close to this on the consumer market for years.

If anything gets spun off of this, it'll likely be a similar amount of CUDA cores, with about 1/2 or 1/3rd the RAM.



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darkknightkryta on 26 July 2013
disolitude said:
If I was a millionare I'd do 4 of these in quad SLI.

I'd use OCZ ZD-XL SQL Accelerator as my boot drive and dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 as my CPU.

Then I'd play Plants VS Zombies.

At a bajillion frames per second!!!!



Pemalite on 26 July 2013
smbu2000 said:

The increase in battery size was pretty insignificant at only 6% or 7%. The increase in battery life was 70%! The majority of that is from the Haswell cpu, which is clocked lower than last years IB cpu but still gives roughly the same performance.

They updated the SSS, which improves performance and added support for ac wireless, nothing really relating to power consumption. 


Haswell uses allot less power at idle compared to Ivy Bridge, which is where you see the big gains as generally with any PC that's the state they spend the most time in. (Even whilst doing basic tasks like web browsing!)

However, when the chips are under load it will use a little more power than Ivy-bridge (I.E. 4770K vs 3770K), but that could be due to Intel being new in the integrated voltage regulation game, give it a couple of generations for Intel to be more aggressive rather than conservative with it.
I would be interested to see Intel implement a resonant clock mesh later down the line to see what kind of power impact that has, it did wonders for AMD!

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disolitude said:
If I was a millionare I'd do 4 of these in quad SLI.

I'd use OCZ ZD-XL SQL Accelerator as my boot drive and dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 as my CPU.

Then I'd play Plants VS Zombies.

At a bajillion frames per second!!!!

First thing I did with my PC when I built it was... Play Minecraft. xD
Truly pushing my system to the limits!




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mrstickball on 27 July 2013
CGI-Quality said:
mrstickball said:
Pretty neat stuff, but you won't see anything close to this on the consumer market for years.

If anything gets spun off of this, it'll likely be a similar amount of CUDA cores, with about 1/2 or 1/3rd the RAM.

These type of cards rarely hit the consumer market at all. Which is OK. The gaming GPUs do just what they need to, whereas this is more for someone, like myself, that is a Developer or 3D Character Artist.


Certainly. I just thought it was interesting that people think this kind of card could somehow translate to the general market, when the specs are vastly different than most consumer-grade cards. A good comparison would be the Nvidia Titan. It has about 10% less CUDA cores, but 50% less RAM (even then, its an insane 6GB).

At any rate, such cards are an amazing feat for the market. Could you imagine if (magically) the PS4 or XB0 had something similar to a Titan on it!?



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darkknightkryta on 30 July 2013
mrstickball said:
CGI-Quality said:
mrstickball said:
Pretty neat stuff, but you won't see anything close to this on the consumer market for years.

If anything gets spun off of this, it'll likely be a similar amount of CUDA cores, with about 1/2 or 1/3rd the RAM.

These type of cards rarely hit the consumer market at all. Which is OK. The gaming GPUs do just what they need to, whereas this is more for someone, like myself, that is a Developer or 3D Character Artist.


Certainly. I just thought it was interesting that people think this kind of card could somehow translate to the general market, when the specs are vastly different than most consumer-grade cards. A good comparison would be the Nvidia Titan. It has about 10% less CUDA cores, but 50% less RAM (even then, its an insane 6GB).

At any rate, such cards are an amazing feat for the market. Could you imagine if (magically) the PS4 or XB0 had something similar to a Titan on it!?

I think those consoles would open a tear into space if that were to happen.