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		Peaker on Sept 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ARM64 and You The new ARM processor is said to be more power hungry than an extra 1GB of RAM.

rsynnott on Sept 27, 2013 [–]

Of course it is... when active. However, you can do a lot more about idling a processor than you can about idling RAM; at a minimum, DRAM requires power for the refresh cycle.

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