Power Consumption Articles

iPhone 12 may not meet holiday demand due to power chip shortfall

Silicon suppliers are prioritizing Apple over competitors, sources say

By Cal Jeffrey, November 5, 2020, 1:09 PM

25 Years Later: A Brief Analysis of GPU Processing Efficiency

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, April 14, 2020, 6:42 AM TechSpot Hardware

The first 3D graphics cards appeared 25 years ago and since then their power and complexity have grown at a scale greater than any other microchip found in a PC. In going from one million to billions of transistors, smaller dies, and consuming more power, the capabilities of these behemoths is immeasurably greater, but what can we learn about efficiency?

Threadripper 3990X TRX40 VRM Torture Test feat. Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha

FEATURE By Steven Walton, March 9, 2020, 6:14 AM TechSpot Hardware

Today we're going to perform some AMD TRX40 motherboard VRM thermal testing using the powerful 64-core Threadripper 3990X. To apply load we're using Blender with the system running at stock and overclocked to 3.8 GHz. The typical power draw for this system is around 450 watts, but once overclocked we are hitting as much as 850 watts. Toasty!

Gaming

Sony's PlayStation 5 could be its most eco-friendly console to date

Significant power gains in suspend mode

By Shawn Knight, September 23, 2019, 10:44 AM

Intel Core i9-9900K Re-Review: Performance unleashed, but also leashed

FEATURE By Steven Walton, November 10, 2018, 6:01 AM TechSpot Hardware

Today we're revisiting our original Core i9-9900K review and updating it with 95 watt TDP limited results, basically results based on the official Intel specification. For better context about this please read our opinion article from earlier this week titled "Do We Need to Re-Review the Core i9-9900K?".