Quote Originally Posted by DarthShader View Post
Yes, but one interesting thing stood out for me:


I wonder how's that estimated, what's the best case scenario here. Possibly a 12 core Opteron (what are they idling at?), compared to a .... any Bulldozer with all but one module sleeping?
It could be worse: he might look at it at the core level, not the whole chip level. So he could be comparing the power consumption of two idle MC cores to a power gated BD module. If that's the case, the 95% figure wouldn't be too shocking.