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by ksec 2172 days ago
>but haven't reduced the power consumption per gate as much.

That is simply not true. You can run the 64 Core on EPYC 2 all at once at 3Ghz all with Air Cooling.

At every node they have reduced power consumption that is also one reason you see continuous performance improvement.

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> That is simply not true.

I'm not claiming anything controversial. Power not having scaled as well as area recently is often referred to as the end of Dennard scaling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling#Breakdown_of_D...

> You can run the 64 Core on EPYC 2 all at once at 3Ghz all with Air Cooling.

That can be true despite the fact that power hasn't scaled as well as area.

> At every node they have reduced power consumption

Yep, just not as much as they improved area.