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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Matt Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds promising. Just curious, how does the power consumption of the RK3288 > compare to the A20? don't know yet, but the PMIC does 3A @ 1V (!!) for the CPU and the same amount for the GPU (!). it'll almost certainly have to be down-clocked to 1ghz, or a special cpufreq arrangement to be made where 2 cores are allowed to run up to the maximum 1.8ghz and the other two are capped at say 400mhz or less, something like that. it's a 4-core 28nm where the A20 was a 2-core 40nm, so that's a 1/2 power-saving factor... running at 1ghz should be a roughly equal power consumption.... but the RK3288 is an A17, the A20 is an A7. just have to see how it goes, basically. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
