Legit Processor Reviews

AMD Athlon II X4 620 and Athlon II X4 630 Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Athlon II X4 630 and 620 CPUs
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fan, video card and hard drive model. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, POV-Ray 3.7 was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load. Both processors were tested on a system using identical hardware.

Power Consumption Results

Results: The power supply that we have dedicated to just our CPU testing systems recently failed and is no longer in production. Since we had to the change power supply all the power consumption results of the processors will have to be re-tested. For the time being we ran power consumption tests on some of the AMD Phenom II and Athlon II processors to see how they stack up. The new Athlon II X4 processors have nearly identical power consumption numbers and run at ~195W at full CPU load.

Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusions


Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Launches Propus For Under $100
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - Overclocking the Athlon II X4 630
Page 4 - Sandra 2009 Memory Bandwidth
Page 5 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2
Page 6 - Microsoft Excel 2007
Page 7 - Cinebench R10
Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25
Page 9 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark06
Page 11 - World in Conflict
Page 12 - Crysis Warhead
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions