AMD A4-5000 Review: Kabini, the mainstream APU > Test System Specs & Power Consumption

Test System Specs & Ability Consumption

AMD A10-5700 System Specs AMD AMD A10-5700 (iii.4GHz - 4.0GHz) Asrock FM2A85X Extreme6 8GB DDR3 RAM Radeon HD 7660D OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Windows eight 64-scrap	AMD A4-5300 Organisation 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-flake
AMD A6-3500 System Specs AMD A6-3500 (2.1GHz - 2.4GHz) Asrock A75 Extreme6 8GB DDR3 RAM Radeon Hard disk drive 6530D OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Windows 8 64-chip	AMD A4-5000 Arrangement Specs AMD A4-5000 (i.50GHz) AMD Whitebook Sample 4GB DDR3 RAM Radeon HD 8330 OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Windows 8 64-scrap
Intel Core i5-3570K System Specs Intel Cadre i5-3570K (iii.4GHz - 3.8GHz) Asrock Z77 Extreme11 8GB DDR3 RAM Intel Hard disk drive 4000 Graphics OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Windows 8 64-bit	Dell Inspiron xv System Specs Intel Pentium 2117U (one.8GHz) Intel HM76 4GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD 2500 Graphics OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Windows eight 64-scrap
Acer Aspire E1 System Specs Intel Celeron 1020M (2.1GHz) Intel HM76 4GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD 2500 Graphics OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Windows eight 64-bit

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

With the CPUs nether total 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 sixty watts.