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tetris11today at 9:46 AM1 replyview on HN

I really want to see TDP over time.

If I can at least tell myself that our technological achievements come with efficiency gains instead of just apeing power throughput, I can rest a little better


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ssl-3today at 10:38 AM

Here's one anecdotal datapoint:

About a decade ago, I discovered that the HD 530 iGPU included with my budget-oriented i3-6300 CPU was better-performing than the physically-impressive SLI pair of 9800GTs I had been using, at something like 1/10th the power consumption.

(It didn't do PhysX, but nobody cared.)