Does trading for a 3.6GHz boost and 97.5MB of L3 on the Platinum 8470N show up on the AI power bill?

  At fleet scale it shows up on the bill: 52 cores and 104 threads running embedding and vectorization rarely touch the 3.6GHz ceiling, so the boost cap mostly goes unused in exchange for flatter per-node power, and 97.5MB of L3 suits a light working set while eight channels to 4096GB carry capacity. Once machines number in the hundreds, the watts saved per box converge into one visible line.

  For rooms squeezed on floor and power, running batch-dominated loads, it earns its slot as the second-tier workhorse; interactive Q&A or generation will show its low boost first. Measure real per-node power and throughput on a pilot batch, then scale by the per-watt numbers instead of a gut feel.