Efficiency: Optimizing The Clock Rate Of AMD's Phenom II X6
AMD’s six-core CPU is affordable (at least, compared to Intel's Core i7-980X). We're overclocking the Thuban design to see if its efficiency improves from faster clock rates. Comparisons to other quad- and hexa-core processors provide some perspective.
Multi-Thread Efficiency
The multi threaded efficiency test includes most of the other benchmarks including 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, HandBrake, MainConcept, WinRAR and 7-Zip.
Apparently, power efficiency increases with overclocking in multi-threaded applications. However, more aggressive overclocks up to 3.8 GHz have a negative impact on overall power consumption.
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