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AMD Phenom X4 9150e & 9350e Review
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This article is also contributed by Vijay Anand.The New Phenom X4 9350e & 9150eIt has been quite the turnaround for AMD in recent weeks. First, there was the unexpected buzz about AMD/ATI's new...
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Power Consumption
AMD has been trumpeting that their new entrants are the only 65W TDP processors in the market, so check out the total system power draw we noted in our testing with a power meter plugged at the power outlet. The results are interesting to say the least.
Idling in Windows Desktop
At idle mode, the Phenom X4 9350e and X4 9150e have both set new records in the power consumption for an AMD quad-core processor. However, this doesn't better Intel's Penryn processors as depicted in our inclusion of the Core 2 Quad Q9450 processor.
3DMark06 CPU Test 2
The power savings figures start to get interesting once we start to load the system. In this 3DMark CPU testing routine, the CPU is heavily taxed, but the GPU isn't involved much. AMD's newcomers fare well against their own kind, but that's very likely due to their operational clock speed difference alone. Among the similar price band of processors, the new energy efficient parts come out better than most other processors (sans the dual-core parts). But when you stop to pause at what tradeoff you get these good power consumption figures, it doesn't seem that good for AMD anymore. More so when you compare the Intel Q9450 processor drawing almost the same amount of power but delivers much more performance.
SPECviewperf 10 Full System Loading - Quad Run
Our final power consumption test had the systems running the highly intensive quad-threaded 3dsmax viewset in SPECviewperf 10, which maximized all the CPU cores and put the GPU into good use. Even in this scenario, not much has changed in the overall picture.
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