Test System Specs & Power Consumption

AMD A10-5700 System Specs
  • AMD AMD A10-5700 (3.4GHz - 4.0GHz)
  • Asrock FM2A85X Extreme6
  • 8GB DDR3 RAM
  • Radeon HD 7660D
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit
AMD A4-5300 System Specs
  • AMD AMD A4-5300 (3.4GHz - 3.70GHz)
  • Asrock FM2A85X Extreme6
  • 8GB DDR3 RAM
  • Radeon HD 7480D
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit
AMD A6-3500 System Specs
  • AMD A6-3500 (2.1GHz - 2.4GHz)
  • Asrock A75 Extreme6
  • 8GB DDR3 RAM
  • Radeon HD 6530D
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit
AMD A4-5000 System Specs
  • AMD A4-5000 (1.50GHz)
  • AMD Whitebook Sample
  • 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Radeon HD 8330
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit
Intel Core i5-3570K System Specs
  • Intel Core i5-3570K (3.4GHz - 3.8GHz)
  • Asrock Z77 Extreme11
  • 8GB DDR3 RAM
  • Intel HD 4000 Graphics
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit
Dell Inspiron 15 System Specs
  • Intel Pentium 2117U (1.8GHz)
  • Intel HM76
  • 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Intel HD 2500 Graphics
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit
Acer Aspire E1 System Specs
  • Intel Celeron 1020M (2.1GHz)
  • Intel HM76
  • 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Intel HD 2500 Graphics
  • OCZ Vector 256GB SSD
  • Windows 8 64-bit

At idle the AMD A4-5000 consumed just 9 watts. In comparison, the Intel Celeron 1020M consumed 78% more power and the Pentium 2117U 100% more power.

With the CPUs under full load the A4-5000 system consumed 17 watts, which was 61% less than the Celeron and 64% less than the Pentium systems. Placing 100% load on both the CPU and GPU saw the A4-5000 system consumption rise to 23 watts, where the Celeron 1020M system used 58 watts and the Pentium 2117U 60 watts.

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