Re: 68060 Power

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 08:34

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On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 1:30:52 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

> This is in comparison to the original 68000, which used 1.75 watts of power. Quite 
> different from today's processors, which might use, say, 90 watts.

...and the top-end Pentium Pro, at 200 MHz with one megabyte of L2 cache, used 44 
watts. This was the one with out-of-order pipelining for the FP unit, thus making 
it a modern CPU with a microarchitecture comparable to that of the 360/195.

John Savard

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