While the comparison of different Intel processor generations revealed performance per watt improvements of over 400% if you compare the a 3 GHz Pentium 4 630 and a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo E6850, AMD only managed to improve its performance per watt ratio by less than 60% (Phenom quad core compared to the Sempron single core). The performance per watt results will be more impressive if you run intensive workloads; thread-optimized applications will benefit even more from multiple cores. However, we used the SYSmark 2007 Preview suite as it represents the majority of workloads applicable to a wide user base, and also because it does include some idle time, which we believe reflects real user behavior pretty well.Check it out over here.
AMD processor efficiency tested
Posted on Monday, February 04 2008 @ 2:45 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck