Legit Processor Reviews
AMD Phenom II X3 720 BE and Phenom II X4 810 Processors
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD Phenom II Socket AM3 Processors |
| Date: | Mon, Feb 09, 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. All of the systems used identical hardware minus the motherboard and processor. It should be noted that the Core i7 processors used a Thermaltake BigWater 760i water cooler and the rest of the systems used a Corsair Nautilus 500 water cooler.
Results: When it came to power consumption the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S uses 30W less power at load than the AMD Phenom II X4 810 processor that it is priced against. The AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition wasn't really more energy efficient that the Phenom II X4 810 since it has more cache and a higher clock frequency. At an idle state all the Phenom II processors that we have looked at have roughly the same idle speed, so nothing significant to report back on that as they all have 45nm Deneb cores inside.
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Page 1 - AMD Socket AM3 Processors Arrive - X3 720 BE & X4 810
Page 2 - Phenom II X4 810 and Phenom II X3 720 BE Page 3 - The Test System Page 4 - Sandra 2009 Memory Bandwidth Page 5 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2 Page 6 - Sony Vegas 8.0c Page 7 - Microsoft Excel 2007 Page 8 - Cinebench R9.5 Page 9 - Cinebench R10 Page 10 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25 Page 11 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing Page 12 - Futuremark 3DMark06 Page 13 - Power Consumption Page 14 - Overclocking Results Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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