A WHILE BACK, AMD
gave a ballpark figure as to the power requirements of the Hammer. The figure seems fairly respectable, a 100 million
transistor chip operating at a moderate 70 watts. Whether this low power figure is due to a comparatively low clock speed or
the silicon on insulator (SOI) process is difficult to tell. Suffice to say that, for a chip that is supposed to be PR 3400+,
that's a very low power requirement. The story of power gets deeper, though. Start counting those transistors. A
Sledgehammer (Opteron) with 1MB of cache will have 100 million of the little blighters. Now start thinking about the
Clawhammer (Athlon 64). The base model only has a 256K cache. That knocks down the transistor count by more than a third.
Realistically, we're talking a 60-65 million transistor chip.
Posted on Monday, December 02 @ 01:02:29 EST by N.B.
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