• Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    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.
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