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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

This 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.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

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.