Relationship between #of cores and Dynamic Power The book I'm currently reading specifies that Dynamic Power = (1/2) * Capacitive Load * (V^2) * frequency However, that is assuming it's a single-core system. I wonder if we're calculating the Dynamic Power of a dual-core system, would that be twice the formula of Dynamic Power above ?
The capacitive load of a dual-core system would be (roughly, ignoring, e.g., sharing parts of the memory hierarchy) twice that of a single core system (with the same core implementation), so the formula would be unchanged.

(Of course, the frequency and even the voltage for different cores might be independently adjustable.)