Good question... what I was able to gather was that the PROCESSOR will use 30% less power. While the entire PC that runs this chip will have a 20x decrease. Its confusing to me to use multiplication to make something smaller and I assume that means the Haswell system (not just the chip) will use 1/20th the amount of power on standy as a Sandy Bridge system.
So if the whole platform (CPU+chipset) can be decreased by 20x, while the CPU itself only goes down 30%, it means that currently the Sandy Bridge platform excluding the CPU is using as much power as 20 Haswell platforms (excluding CPU) plus 13 Sandy Bridge CPUs.
Why would you want your notebook to continually fetch updates, instead of just updating in one go when you wake it up? Unless we're talking about some kind of updates notification here like in smartphones.
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vlado08 - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - link
Anand I need some more explanation. What am I missing?MilwaukeeMike - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - link
Good question... what I was able to gather was that the PROCESSOR will use 30% less power. While the entire PC that runs this chip will have a 20x decrease. Its confusing to me to use multiplication to make something smaller and I assume that means the Haswell system (not just the chip) will use 1/20th the amount of power on standy as a Sandy Bridge system.ajp_anton - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - link
So if the whole platform (CPU+chipset) can be decreased by 20x, while the CPU itself only goes down 30%, it means that currently the Sandy Bridge platform excluding the CPU is using as much power as 20 Haswell platforms (excluding CPU) plus 13 Sandy Bridge CPUs.ssj4Gogeta - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link
Why would you want your notebook to continually fetch updates, instead of just updating in one go when you wake it up? Unless we're talking about some kind of updates notification here like in smartphones.