any suggestions for benchmarking power efficiency?

[TrojanWhore]

Hi guys,

I work in IT, for a green company....
HR have brought us some 'eco AI' software (called spara, think it officially launches in a few days), which claims to save lots of power.

looking at the box/website, it seems the main way it achives this power (energy) saving, is to reduce the available power (computational) available to the OS.

obviously, as all of us overclockers know, using more watts to get the job done quicker often results in lower overall power consumption for a given task, so we'd like to investigate (/disprove) the claims the software vendors are making, hence I was wondering if anyone knows of a benchmark suite which could highlight these considerations (i.e. a scripted set of tasks, as per toms hardware efficiency tests)?


TLDR: anyone know any decent power usage benchmarks?

Thanks,
Trojan

 

[ubersonic]

I would put two identical workstations side by side, install the software on one, monitor both's power usage throughout the day doing the same stuff.

 

[TrojanWhore]

hi Uber, thanks, I should have stated in the OP, we have 2 identical systems set up (core2 quad, 8gb etc.) and are doing essentially what you have suggested, but we were hoping to find some automated/scripted benchmarks to help rule out human error (i.e. trigger then benchmarks on both systems simultaneously.

I know for the Toms benches, they use a script to launch and control the application workload being tested, and was hoping someone might know where I could download said scripts or similar....bit of an odd request I know!