Re: [Trisquel-users] Status on Loongson processor?

[ninenine78]

@Horgeon yes, all of those systems use less power. It is because they were  
designed to. The true measure of performance and power consumption is work  
per watt. As an example, imagine building Gentoo on 2 machines(hypothetically  
both architectures are supported etc). Sure a hexa-core desktop will draw  
much much more power than the smaller system. My desktop pulls about 300  
watts with a full CPU load(no GPU loading). Another system may only consume  
30 watts from the wall, which is 10% of my consumption. In the end my system  
MAY use less power because I could finish the compile and either put the  
system to sleep or shut it down entirely. Until performance/watt can be  
measured on systems that are as diverse as Loongsoon and x86, and measured  
reliably, it's too soon to say for sure which uses less total power.