Wednesday, July 3rd 2013
AMD Readies a Pair of Energy-Efficient Socket FM2 APUs
AMD's A-series "Richland" APUs are great to have in HTPC builds, but their 65W to 100W TDPs can be a put-off for some. The company is working on a pair of energy efficient socket FM2 APUs based on the silicon, with TDP rated at 45W. The first of the two is the A10-6700T, which features a significantly lower CPU clock speed of 2.50 GHz, with an unknown TurboCore speed; and GPU clock speed of 720 MHz. It's not known if the chip is dual-core or quad-core, but given that quad-core non-K A10-6700 rates in at 65W, it's not improbable for A10-6700T to be one, as well. Also unknown is the stream processor count. Moving on, we have the A8-6500T. Its CPU clock speed is further lowered, to 2.10 GHz, and GPU to 720 MHz, like the A10-6700T, its CPU and GPU core/SP counts are under the wraps.
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Guru3D
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passive heatsinks are specially designed to create their own air flow, or utilize existing air flow.
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www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-a10-6800k_9.html#sect0
related info > second paragraph after the 1st screenshot...
My interest in Richland is mainly for the cheap access to new(ish) virtualization tech. Intel's chips are faster, there is little doubt of that, but you have to pay out the nose for any premium features.
The only thing I'm pissed about is that AMD seems to have broken their tradition of almost universal ECC support with these new fangled APUs.
In any case if I can build a whitebox VM server dirt cheap, and with low heat/power I'm happy to give AMD my money.
if you are comparing the GPU temp, know that GPUs always run hotter than CPUs. 100C to a gpu is like 80C to a CPU..
a lot of GPUs stay at 90C load, with stock coolers.
Don't worry though the on die temp sensor for the video card reads as low as 2c and peaks at 29c. So somehow a couple nanometers away thr cpu is running triple that temp without bleeding over to the at times almost frozen gpu core.
check cpu world database.
The 5800K eats about 85W on stock at full load, and power consumption just skyrockets when you start OC-ing (achieving 130-150W is a piece of cake, really is). I would go for the slowest i5 + GTX650 any time tbh.
4.0GHz Stock Cooler
4.4GHz TRUE Cooler
There you go, under load, 85w. The APU is consuming 85w. Either the 161w you saw was for an overclocked chip, or the rest of the system is consuming ~75w.
OK, for anyone who doesn't know or hasn't figured it out yet... A10-6700T is actually a desktop version of the mobile Richland A10-5750M... but with a 10W higher TDP... 2,5-3,5GHz CPU clocks, 533-720MHz GPU clocks and 1866MHz DDR3 support.
Also, here's a bonus:
ps.: It's also must be noted that the i5+GTX650 combo is not really twice as expensive, because you have to OC the AMD chip while you can undervolt/clock the Intel+NV combo at the same time, and if you add up the difference in (let's say) three years of electricity costs, you might end up not that far perhaps.
These numbers we done with a dedicated 7970. Core for core your probably looking at 30-40 watt difference at 3.3GHz but you cannot. The difference really is not much. Don't get so bent out of shape too BTW.:slap:
This is also at full load on GPU and CPU where these numbers will never be hit in daily use thus the smoking comment... LOL