The Truth About PC Power Consumption

Performance Benchmark Results

We only ran a few typical benchmarks to show the differences between our AMD and Intel test systems.

3DMark06, PCMark05

The 3D standard benchmark 3DMark06 shows similar performance for the two systems.

In the overall score..., the Intel system looks better.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

  • trewinnard
    If you break it down to component level you can get an pretty accurate measurement of what your consumption should be. Checkout this PC power consumption breakdown| http://www.infobarrel.com/PC_power_consumption_explained

    Tbuzz
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  • trewinnard
    If you break it down to component level you can get an pretty accurate measurement of what your consumption should be. Checkout this PC power consumption breakdown| http://www.infobarrel.com/PC_power_consumption_explained

    Tbuzz
    Reply