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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 hours agoIt’s not just the RAM using all of that power, there’s also 900,000 processor cores in the chip. All of that SRAM is just cache memory.
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 hours agoThis made me feel a bit dizzy reading that. The line I got me 100 GB of RAM from Weird Al’s All About The Pentiums will need to be updated to 100 GB of cache.
minus-squareRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·17 hours agoOk that makes more sense, I knew SRAM is relatively costly in terms of power consumption, but the 23 KW seemed like a lot for 40 GM of SRAM.
It’s not just the RAM using all of that power, there’s also 900,000 processor cores in the chip. All of that SRAM is just cache memory.
This made me feel a bit dizzy reading that.
The line
from Weird Al’s All About The Pentiums will need to be updated to 100 GB of cache.
Ok that makes more sense, I knew SRAM is relatively costly in terms of power consumption, but the 23 KW seemed like a lot for 40 GM of SRAM.