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Re:Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El demos next-gen mobile graphics,... by blauwbilgorgel on Monday May 30, 2011 @11:52AM (#2599678)
According to a salesmen at a Nokia booth after being asked the question: How about battery life?

Battery life should increase. Because we have 4 cores, we can run them on lower voltages. So overall, our plans are, and we expect to have better battery life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDmQCOyXrU

The power consumption and battery life should be akin to the Tegra 2.

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Re:Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El demos next-gen mobile graphics,... by wmf on Monday May 30, 2011 @02:11PM (#2600024)
If you're doing one core worth of work on four cores and it's well-parallelized then you can run the cores slower. But in this demo they're running all the cores pretty busy, which will use more power.
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