AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition CPU review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 May 2011, 08:58 2.5

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Benchmarks: Power consumption

Remember that 125W TDP we alluded to earlier? It comes to bear in the power-consumption tests, and while not excessive, the architecture has been bettered by Intel. Indeed, AMD's own six-core chips can pull fewer watts, going by our results.