The Clarkdale Review: Intel's Core i5 661, i3 540 & i3 530
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 4, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Power Consumption: Great but not as Good as Lynnfield
The biggest efficiency advantage Lynnfield held over Bloomfield was its extremely low idle power consumption. Clarkdale seems to ruin that thanks to its 45nm IMC/GPU on package. Idle power isn't bad, but noticeably worse than Lynnfield. Update: Many have pointed out that this may be a characteristic of our ASUS H57 motherboard, and that idle power is much more reasonable on Intel's H55 board. We're currently in Las Vegas for CES but upon our return we'll look into this further.
Load power is just dreamy though. This is ultimately what makes Clarkdale competitive. The i3s have the performance to compete with AMD's low-end triple and quad-core CPUs, but if they're anything like the i5 661 they have much better power characteristics than the competition.
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ssoussi - Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - link
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