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Power Consumption - 150 Watts When Overclocked

12:41 PM - February 5, 2008 by The Editors of Tom's Hardware
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, 9600, black, edition
Topics: AMD/ATI, Build Your Own, Business, Overclocking

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Table of Contents:
15 – Power Consumption - 150 Watts ...
  1. 1 – AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition
  2. 2 – B2 Stepping - TLB Bug Is Still Around
  3. 3 – B2 Stepping - TLB Bug Is Still Around, Continued
  4. 4 – Phenom 9600 Black Edition
  5. 5 – Overclocking - AMD's OverDrive Badly Supported
  6. 6 – Overclocking - Newer Versions From Other Sources?
  7. 7 – Overclocking - AMD OverDrive Not Yet Mature
  8. 8 – Overclocking - AMD OverDrive Not Yet Mature, Continued
  9. 9 – Overlocking By 13.04% - 2.60 GHz
  10. 10 – Overclocking - Hitting The Limit At 2.70 GHz
  11. 11 – Overclocking - Hitting The Limit At 2.70 GHz, Continued
  12. 12 – Only 12.5% More Performance
  13. 13 – Slower Than Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600
  14. 14 – Power Consumption - 21 Watts When Idle
  15. 15 – Power Consumption - 150 Watts When Overclocked
  16. 16 – Test Setup
  17. 17 – Software Configuration
  18. 18 – 3D Games - UT2004, Prey
  19. 19 – 3D Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
  20. 20 – 3D Games -Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
  21. 21 – 3D-Rendering - Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
  22. 22 – Applications - AVG, WinRAR
  23. 23 – Applications - Photoshop, PDF
  24. 24 – Applications - Deep Fritz
  25. 25 – Audio Encoding - ITunes, Lame
  26. 26 – Synthetic - Sandra CPU
  27. 27 – Synthetic - Sandra Memory
  28. 28 – Synthetic - Sandra Multimedia
  29. 29 – Synthetic - PC-Mark
  30. 30 – Synthetic - 3DMark06
  31. 31 – Video Encoding - Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
  32. 32 – Video Encoding - Premiere, Mainconcept
  33. 33 – Video Encoding - HDTV, DivX
  34. 34 – Video Encoding - CloneDVD
  35. 35 – Conclusion - AMD's Phenom 9600 Can't Beat Intel's Q6600

Power Consumption - 150 Watts When Overclocked

In order to put a full load on the CPU, we run a multi-core version of Prime95.

Consuming 98 watts, our Phenom 9600 BE adheres almost completely to AMD's quoted TDP of 95 watts, with a small part of the power consumption accounted for by the voltage regulation modules. When the CPU is overclocked to 2.70 GHz, the cooling system has to dissipate 150 watts of heat.

By Contrast - Intel Q6600

Overclocked to 2.70 GHz, the Phenom 9600 BE offers nearly the same processing power as Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600. However, the AMD processor consumes 150 watts, while the Intel Q6600 only draws 83 watts according to our measurements, a difference of 67 W.


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ShadowKai 07/06/2008 7:34 AM
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I think on page 14 the author meant:

"When Cool'n'Quiet is deactivated, idle power consumption rises to 51 watts. The jump in power consumption at 2.70 GHz is a direct result of the core voltage increase from 1.250 V to 1.400 V."

And the bars for Phenom 9600 BE and Phenom 9600 BE (CnC) should be switched around.

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