Re:A startup’s cooling chip may surge processor power
by scns on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:44AM
(#33919485)
Higher performance finishes the race to idle quicker and thus counterintuitively saves battery.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:A startup’s cooling chip may surge processor power
by xxs on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:58AM
(#33919583)
not at all: higher performance equals higher freq, which requires higher voltage. Power scales w/ frequency linearly and the with the voltage squared. Then any active cooling will have its own power consumption.
Best battery/power savings are achieved running as low as possible voltage for as high as possible frequency. At such voltages the CPUs/APUs are less likely to throttle to begin with.