Dylan Patel on

power efficiency

3 quotes · October 2025

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  1. Patel quantifies that 20% performance per watt advantage translates to only 4% TCO difference on NVIDIA deployments.

    “But capital is far more of a limiting factor. Because if you have enough power, a 20% difference in performance per watt only ends up being a 4% difference in TCO.”

    15:43 · Open Compute Project · 23 Oct 2025 · permalink
  2. Patel calculates 20% power efficiency difference translates to only 4% TCO difference on NVIDIA deployments.

    “Because if you have enough power, a 20% difference in performance per watt only ends up being a 4% difference in TCO.”

    15:46 · Open Compute Project · 23 Oct 2025 · permalink
  3. Patel calculates that without Supermicro's liquid cooling solution, servers would consume 30% more power.

    “So that's why Shibbol Micro dedicated deep cooling so aggressively. And if the liquid cooling solution from Super Micro didn't exist, then those servers would be consuming 30% more power.”

    50:56 · Supermicro · 16 Oct 2025 · permalink

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