Matthew Garrett on the race to idle
Posted May 13, 2008 8:20 UTC (Tue) by
forthy (guest, #1525)
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Matthew Garrett on the race to idle by IkeTo
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Matthew Garrett on the race to idle
> Should it be proportional to
voltage?
It actually goes exponentially with voltage and temperature. This
means scaling up the voltage for higher frequency and in turn heating up
the CPU increases leakage by factors, which makes the original power
saving equation somehow dubious.
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