The Truth About PC Power Consumption

Features
By Patrick Schmid
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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
2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • 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