AMD EPYC Architecture & Technical Overview

[Totally]

Can someone explain to me how..why.. they use joules as a measurement when we're talking about a signal, right?

I know the relation between watts and joules, i just don't understand how we could even measure something that has no weight (current travelling from 'A' to 'B') in joules.
If that makes sense? Am not exactly versed in physics, so this may well sound dumb to you

W=[J]/s

Watts is joules used per unit time, the conversion to watts is probably an uglier number than they are willing to admit to atm and sticking with just joules since it will look nicer at a glance. Without a time given the figure is kind of meaningless if I were to guess that number is energy used per clock cycle.

 

[BiggieShady]

Can someone explain to me how..why.. they use joules as a measurement when we're talking about a signal, right?

I know the relation between watts and joules, i just don't understand how we could even measure something that has no weight (current travelling from 'A' to 'B') in joules.
If that makes sense? Am not exactly versed in physics, so this may well sound dumb to you

Particles that create the signal in this case are electrons and they have mass, but the signal itself is electromagnetic wave which in physics (wave particle duality) is essentially bunch of photons and they have no mass, but they do carry energy which is measured in joules. All energy is measured in joules, but only potential energy of gravitational field and kinetic energy has anything to with mass and weight.

 

[W1zzard]

Without a time given the figure is kind of meaningless if I were to guess that number is energy used per clock cycle.

Joules per bit is completely sufficient, and is exactly what was provided by AMD.

 

[Totally]

Didn't realize it was /bit and thought it was just listed as Joules

 

[Aenra]

Particles that create the signal in this case are electrons and they have mass, but the signal itself is electromagnetic wave which in physics (wave particle duality) is essentially bunch of photons and they have no mass, but they do carry energy which is measured in joules. All energy is measured in joules, but only potential energy of gravitational field and kinetic energy has anything to with mass and weight.

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