Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fans, video cards and hard drives. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95’s in-place large FFT’s was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. All processors were tested on a system using the same hardware; the exception is the Intel system.
The AMD Phenom II X6 1075T does draw more power than the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor does under a full load. Though to be fair it is only a mere 4 Watts. Though at Idle, the AMD Phenom II X6 1075T does have the lowest consumption of any of the processors we looked at today.