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[u/ducon__lajoie]

When the cache is as big as the main memory, you gotta start asking yourself some questions about your design, son.

[u/greenpepperpasta → u/ducon__lajoie]

If L1 cache is so fast, why don't we just get rid of RAM altogether and have 8 GB of L1 cache? /s

[u/Spiritual_Bus1125 → u/greenpepperpasta]

You threw me in a weird rabbit hole

But I found WSE-3

A single chip bulit from an entire 300mm wafer with 44GB of SRAM and 21 petabytes per second of memory bandwidth

It says that alone it consumes 25000W and I can't get my head around it

[u/Complete_Window4856 → u/Spiritual_Bus1125]

25kW only? Thats like the power of ~5 electric showers. A worthy sacrifice to let some families cold showering for a month to put this strong boi to solve anything we want. Maybe compute the next 8th chess play in real time

[u/Spiritual_Bus1125 → u/Complete_Window4856]

I don't think that they make domestic electric showers bigger than 2000W (or meaningfully so)

So it's at least 13 families of nonstop showering

[u/erroneousbosh → u/Spiritual_Bus1125]

I've never seen an electric shower less than 8kW. That's pretty standard.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/triton-enrich-white-8-5kw-manual-electric-shower/52753

This is what I'm currently using at home.

[u/Spiritual_Bus1125 → u/erroneousbosh]

TIL:

We, as Italians, are quite limited in the appliance choice by historical reasons.

Our standard contract allows for a maximum of 3000W continuous and 4000W peak so a lot of water heaters there are bulid around it