Intel Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology

[NonNative]

Maybe some of you heard it already that incoming Penryn wil have this technology.

Here what is Intel said

The idea is the following," explained Eden. "If you are running a single threaded application, one of the cores can go to sleep, and the left over power can be used by the other core - we give it a turbo boost; the ability to run faster than it used to. "This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec. This is not out of spec. Here, it is within the spec of the dual-cores, we just identify when one core is not using the headroom and we give it to the other core.

What do you guys think about it ?

 

[AlNom]

If it isn't doing anything to clockspeed, what is it doing exactly to give it a speed boost? Increased multiplier? More stable power supply? Access to the entire L2/L3 cache?

 

[Accord1999]

What do you guys think about it ?

It's only for the mobile processors for now.

If it isn't doing anything to clockspeed, what is it doing exactly to give it a speed boost? Increased multiplier? More stable power supply? Access to the entire L2/L3 cache?

It is increasing the clockspeed, but it's not "overclocking" because Intel has specified the one core for that clockspeed.

 

[ShaidarHaran]

It's only for the mobile processors for now.


It is increasing the clockspeed, but it's not "overclocking" because Intel has specified the one core for that clockspeed.

This really requires a definition for the term "overclocking" then. I would say that to overclock is to run one or more MPUs/ASICs/S or DRAMs above their default manufacturer-specified clockspeed.

 

[Albuquerque]

So, one core can be tested & approved for Speed (xxxx), but when all cores are turned on, they are (as a group) only tested and approved for speed (less than xxxx)?

I'm seeing this from a total package power consumption standpoint. Example: all four cores operating consumes 100W at 1.25v and 2.4Ghz -- but one core will consume 38W at 1.35v and 3Ghz.

Wierd.