[section_title title=”Power Consumption”]Power Consumption
Power consumption is measured using everything on the test bench except the GPU. This gives a more accurate reading of the motherboard and CPUs power usage. To load the CPU up to 100%, Prime95 is used. This is done by using the torture test feature. The maximum reading is recorded.
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Any idea why the performance results are so much lower for the MSI A88XI board? Same CPU and same chipset, you’d expect the numbers to be similar… but that performance delta is HUGE!
It could be down to a number of things, advancements in drivers between the launch between them; with the APU focusing heavily on AMD software/drivers, it does make sense. But I appreciate what you are saying etc!