DRAM power - sanity check

Article: Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business
By: Mark Roulo (nothanks.delete@this.xxx.com), April 24, 2013 9:38 am
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EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com) on April 24, 2013 9:53 am wrote:
> So... Ultrabooks are fine with 8GB of main memory, but that small 128MB
> chip in the processor are going to drain battery and overheat?
>

I think that the power for DRAM is (roughly) proportional to the bandwidth used.

So ... 25 GB/sec for 8 GB DRAM that maybe consumes 4-8 watts turns into
something much worse when you are running at 64 GB/sec.

If the power savings is ~10W, then, yes, this matters.
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