Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6GHz CPU Review

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Manufacturer:	Intel
Product:	Intel G620 Retail Boxed Processor - BX80623G620
Date:	Mon, Aug 01, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By:	Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

CPU 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 identical power supplies, Solid-Sate Drives, Memory kits and motherboards from the same company. 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, Prime95's in-place large FFT's were run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. Curious about other test scenarios, we decided to 3DMark Vantage the performance preset and took the maximum power consumption during the first GPU test. We also tested a video transcode using HandBrake 0.95 to see how the power draw on that was.

ASUS F1A75-M Pro System Power Consumption

Benchmark Results: The Intel Pentium G620 is a 65W TDP processor, but the highest Wattage that we were able to get the entire test system to was just 56.1 Watts. This is very lower power consumption when you think about it! At an idle the Intel Pentium G620 used a little more power than the Intel Core i3-2120, which is strange, but not two processors are alike and power efficiency varies widely.

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Review Index

Page 1 - Intel Pentium G620 Processor Review
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - CPU-Z, GPU-Z and Windows Index Score
Page 4 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP3
Page 5 - x264 HD Encoding
Page 6 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5
Page 7 - Handbrake
Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3
Page 9 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 10 - PCMark 7
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 12 - Resident Evil 5
Page 13 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 14 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 16 - Intel Pentium G620 Overclocking
Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions

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