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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: KnC Titan. Now 250Mhash.
by
RocketsFlySohigh
on 24/04/2014, 00:06:35 UTC

Based on the current known specs of 28nm technology any array of chips that pumps out a combined total of 300 mhs of scrypt is going to be using right at 6000 watts at 100% efficiency, which again is never going to happen.


This is an interesting conjecture. Can you explain your reasoning in more detail ?
I, too, am really curious as to how you could back up your estimate. Are you assuming there is a minimal amount of transistors you have to use and a minimal amount of reads/writes on a on-chip memory?

Overall energy consumption is affected by many factors. Like layout of the board. for example in an ASIC, you can have memory very close to a processor significantly lowering wattage.