CPU power consumption chart

Here you go, two CPUpower consumption charts:





Here are the sources:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU: Dual-Core and 64-Bit Go Mass!

Socket AM2 Platform: DDR2 SDRAM Support from AMD


Here's a total system power consumption chart:



Here is the source:

Merom and Conroe: test of Core 2 Duet

I think the 3rd graph (where the FX-60 had 205 watts) is total power consumption for the system, while the 110 watts is only the power used for the processor.

This article looks at the power consumption of mobile and desktop CPUs at stock and lower voltages.

They are using the following:

* 2 discs Western DIGITAL Raptor 74 Go 10.000 turns/minute
* Zalman food 460 Watts
* NVIDIA GeForce 6800 WP 256 Mo NCV-Express train
* DDR1: 2x512 Mo RAM DDR-400 Corsair Pro TwinX1024 2-2-2-5
* DDR2: 2x512 Mo RAM Micron DDR2-533 3-3-3-8
* DDR2: 2x512 Mo RAM Corsair DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 for certain tests of overclocking
* Reader of DVD Plextor

You can read about it here.

The article is written in French so the translation isn't perfect.

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If you want to know the power consumption of some current video cards then click the following links:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] 0gt_4.html

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] gto_6.html

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] 006_4.html