Amd A10 6800K And A4 4000 Richland Apu Review System Power Consumption

Here is the real problem with AMD’s processors. With the exception of the integrated graphics test, at no point was the A10-6800K faster than the Core i5-3450. In fact, most of the time it was much slower. Yet despite that the A10-6800K consumed 59% more power than the Core i5-3450 under full load. It also consumed 9% more power than the A10-5800K, but 28% less than the FX-4350. Meanwhile the A4-4000, which displayed a lack of processing power in our benchmarks, still gulped down 89 watts under full load. That’s roughly the same as the Core i5-3450 system. This means that the A4-4000 system consumed 46% more power than the Pentium G2020 and 53% more power than the Celeron G1610.