If Zosma is Thuban with 2 disabled cores and the Zosma 960T is 95W
at 3.3 GHz (Lower power dissipation as Deneb) that would be good news.
It would indicate that power gating removes the idle current (mostly leakage)
of the disabled cores. Power gating is used in Intel's Turbo mode.
Regards, Hans






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