Re:Linus Torvalds on AVX512
by em500 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:40AM
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You must be young. Home PC CPUs from my youth drew only single digit watts. They didn't require any fan until the Pentium.
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Indeed:
386, introduced 1985:
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80386/Intel-A80386-16.html
Typical/Maximum power dissipation: 1.85 Watt / 2.3 Watt
And even no Pentium III 1999-2003 needed more than around 30 W:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_III_micr...
The Pentium II was not as efficient as the III. I remember setting up a dual socket machine where the PS started to matter. The best thing was that the web browser would only suck 100% from one processor.