AMD A8-5600k APU Processor Review
Andy Ruffell / 12 years ago
Power Consumption
To test power consumption, we monitor the overall power of the system through a plug-in electricity usage monitor at an idle and load state. This allows us to show the fluctuation between how much power draw the system takes at idle and at load. By monitoring the overall usage of the whole system, it gives an easy comparison if you wish to do the same yourself as opposed to buying very expensive individual testing equipment.
Power is something we were keen to test as these APU based products are expected to run at low usage levels and we see that coming true across the board. While the FM1 based APUs use less power, they also have slower, older technology and therefore was expected.
Even with the overclock to 4.4GHz, we didn’t see the load power usage peak above 114 Watts which is simply fantastic when aiming this type of product at the market segment that AMD have in mind.
