Wattage/heat of CPUs -Intel vs. AMD

[wacki]

Intel vs. AMD which one wins when it comes to heat? A friend wants a cool (and quiet) computer that has a decent amount of power.

Is there a side by side chart comparison of desktop and mobile CPUs?

 

[Accord99]

http://www.matbe.com/articles/...m-et-celeron/page5.php
http://www.behardware.com/medi...s/00/20/IMG0020232.gif
http://www.hardtecs4u.com/imag...el_qx6850/leistung.png
http://www.hardtecs4u.com/revi.../amd_be2xxx/index5.php
http://www.digit-life.com/arti...4x2-4800-ee-page2.html
http://www.digit-life.com/arti...-e2140-2160-page3.html

 

[covert24]

the dig-life website contradicts every other one of those sites.

in other words AMD ftw

 

[bryanW1995]

I don't have any charts handy, but based on what I've seen/read I'd say that for power consumption, X2>C2D>Barcelona>Penryn on a similarly-performing machine. Mobile chipsets intel has the clear advantage in both perf and power consumption at present, and that should only get more pronounced as santa rosa ramps up.

 

[Accord99]

Originally posted by: covert24
the dig-life website contradicts every other one of those sites.

in other words AMD ftw

No, they more or less confirm the same thing; AMD's lower voltage BE CPUs are pretty good but use more power than Intel's 800MHz FSB C2D based processors under load, the standard C2Ds beat the standard 65nm AMD Brisbanes and the 90nm 3GHz+ A64s uses as much power as Intel's quad-cores.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Accord99

Originally posted by: covert24
the dig-life website contradicts every other one of those sites.

in other words AMD ftw

No, they more or less confirm the same thing; AMD's lower voltage BE CPUs are pretty good but use more power than Intel's 800MHz FSB C2D based processors under load, the standard C2Ds beat the standard 65nm AMD Brisbanes and the 90nm 3GHz+ A64s uses as much power as Intel's quad-cores.

Don't forget to add the northbridge\memory controller to Intel's numbers.