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Re: BFL 3-15-13 update...Testing to Shipping...in "days".
by
mrb
on 19/03/2013, 05:30:44 UTC
I remember that someone discussed before, going from a 110nm process to 65nm process in principle won't generate a 80% increase in efficiency, the best estimate is around 50%. There was a possibility that Avalon had an unefficient design, then BFL might gain another 30% efficiency by using a better design

In principle going from 110nm to 65nm reduces power consumption by 65% (1-(65/110)**2  because power efficiency is proportional to the inverse of the square of the feature size).

But the process node is not everything. Consider ASICMINER for example: they have chips that are more power efficient than Avalon, despite the worse process node (respectively 130nm vs 110nm). ASICMINER does 167 Mhash/Joule vs Avalon doing only 150 Mhash/Joule.