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Re:ARM64 and You by Peaker on Friday September 27, 2013 @06:29PM (#6459976)
The new ARM processor is said to be more power hungry than an extra 1GB of RAM.
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Re:ARM64 and You by rsynnott on Friday September 27, 2013 @07:57PM (#6460292)
Of course it is... when active. However, you can do a lot more about idling a processor than you can about idling RAM; at a minimum, DRAM requires power for the refresh cycle.
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