Thoughts on the current AMD Lines...

[Avenged7Fold]

People only look at Prime95 and think that equals normal power consumption in some weird way. When I use IBT for stress testing, I never see the CPUs run anywhere near that temperature when gaming for example. Different workloads can lead to very different power consumption levels.

People really overstate power consumption.

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Real power usage is never anywhere near what a lot of reviews suggest. Unless your running prime for 24/7 no one is dragging these sort of Watts. I am going to find someone complaining about FX power usage and quote them, including their signature describing their 3 27" screen set up

 

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People only look at Prime95 and think that equals normal power consumption in some weird way. When I use IBT for stress testing, I never see the CPUs run anywhere near that temperature when gaming for example. Different workloads can lead to very different power consumption levels.

People really overstate power consumption. I was running an overclocked Q6600 using an inefficient 975X chipset, with a massively overclocked HD5850 in a Shuttle SD37P2 SFF PC. The PSU was an older generation Shuttle 450W job and it was fine.

Very few reviews seem to measure gaming power consumption for example.Here are the only two I can find so far:

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2055/system-power.jpg

http://img.hexus.net/v2/cpu/amd/Piledriver/FX8748/Power3.png

The first review used a HD7970 IIRC and the second a GTX680. So in BF3,the FX8350 based system consumes around 40W more than a Core i7 3770K based system at the wall.

In both reviews,the FX8350,Core i7 3770K and Core i5 3570K based systems are consuming less than 300W,when the CPUs are at stock clockspeeds, at the wall using a high end graphics card and inefficient high end motherboards.

Anybody with a decent 500W PSU should be fine running the systems.

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During 2 hours of gaming i see ~40c, 8 hours of CPU Folding is see 45c. And that is the highest i have ever seen the temperatures outside of Prime95 which gets to 53c in 2 hours, 20% higher than even folding for 8 hours solid.

Just completely unrealistic.

You know whats interesting about your links, the 4 core APU has the same power consumption as the 3770K, i know its 2 modules x2 cores vs 4 straight cores but they are not even close to the same processing node, 32nm vs 22nm.
All things considered they are not bad at all, pretty good even, it would be interesting to see the power consumption on the same 22nm node.