Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoA single Opteron 6272 is somewhat faster than the N200, but the Opteron’s TDP is 115 watts while the N200’s is only 6 watts. OP’s server with 2 processors is more than 2x as fast as my single processor laptop, but can require nearly 40x the electricity. For a home server it’s major overkill.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Newer CPUs can also just be better optimized and have more faster cache and that sort of thing, so might be faster at running a process even if they’re the same on paper.