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by bullen 2076 days ago
Nope, if you compare theoretical Gflops/watt it's probably 30%, but in practice you'll only get maybe 15%. Memory speed is the bottleneck and you cannot get around that. DDR3 had lower latency than DDR6 and only bandwidth is increasing, and you have to ask bandwidth for what?
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Sorry, I don't follow. Why would anything be getting faster if we are talking about hypothetically utilising (just) the power-saving gains from newer nodes?
Basically Gflops/watt is not going north of 1 for 32-bit CPUs, so humanity is completely out of growth. This is the end. Game Over!