Matthew Garrett on the race to idle [LWN.net]

Matthew Garrett on the race to idle

Posted May 11, 2008 11:23 UTC (Sun) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122)
In reply to: Matthew Garrett on the race to idle by mjg59
Parent article: Matthew Garrett on the race to idle

> On modern CPUs, halving the speed of your processor doesn't halve its power draw.

Hm... I read otherwise somewhere else, if you count only the power of the CPU.  (Actually it
should save more than half of its power, otherwise why slowing down?)  Would you mind sharing
with us where you get this idea?

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