Energy consumption of the A1

[dammy]

by IonDeluxe on 2003/4/20 7:30:21

Last time I looked, which is a long time ago, intel were around 90 watts, and AMD were around 130 watts in thier power useage.However, this is directly proportional to heat so with that much savings in power you get a much less heat problem which translates into much less work area required to remove said heat.

There was an interesting thread over on MooBunny about this subject not too long ago.  You may want to take a look at:

Moo

As you can see, the bogus power consumption arguement has little meaning once you take a hard look at it.

Dammy

[dammy]

by IonDeluxe on 2003/4/20 13:01:55

Anyway, as best as I could determine, that yes there are offerings at the same or lower power consumtion as the "stock standard" PPC CPU's.

Yup, which are about the same GHz speeds.  As the article I linked pointed out, once the G4 hits 1.8 GHz, it's power consumption goes up into the upper 40's vs high 50's for Athlon 2200XP.  Which means the power consumption issue is not a big issue at all.

Dammy

[dammy]

There are some comparisons over on Tomshardware

Dammy