Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Up to 190W I read somewhere on their page.
...for the POWER8 chip, not for the board let alone entire system.
POWER8 has absolutely massive memory bandwidth (230GB/second) and another 48GB/second for I/O.
That's probably where most of that power goes.
FYI Intel Xeon E5 is up 160W.