I got a chance to fiddle with windows Vista's graphical prowess. When I just enabled keeping a movie as dynamic desktop b/g I found that CPU utilization stood at 80% to 90% constantly. Which means lesser chances to enter CPU idle states and peak power consumption. If we speak in raw terms it is like always pushing the accelarator at the max. It is going to suck lot of power, and today's laptops will certainly find it hard breath and loose their life pretty soon.
So surely, Intel or AMD has a long way to go in power savings. Time for power optimized compilers?
Meanwhile I also heard a rumour that apple's iphone is stuck into same kind of issue, that it is not withstanding the battery of the phone and loosing life pretty soon. It will be really interesting to see, how apple manages power Vs performance.
Count down for iPhone is coming close..
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment