Linux Power Efficiency Of Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell & Kaveri Compared

[Michael_S]

I think Kaveri did well considering the price point. Obviously AMD lags Intel a lot these days - and I say that as an AMD fanboy. I have three desktops in the house with AMD processors.

Really, I think for desktops the current APU that makes the most sense is the A10-7800. You get most of the performance of the 7870 for a much lower power draw. My wife's computer as the A10-6700 and it runs fine and is whisper quiet all of the time.

[heliosh]

How much do they take each when idle?

[boffo]

I'm still hoping AMD will respond with an enthusiast APU. I'd love a fat APU with 14/16 nm fab processing + HBM and no additional ddr3/4 ram for a compact pc.

[schmidtbag]

Wow, a 250$/380$ APU is better than a 130$ APU.
I miss the relation to the prices.

You say that as though the article made product recommendations. Price is irrelevant when you're comparing performance-per-watt. This article is just simply showing facts - calm down.

[Nille]

Wow, a 250$/380$ APU is better than a 130$ APU.
I miss the relation to the prices.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Power Efficiency Of Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell & Kaveri Compared

Last week from the new Intel Core i5 6600K "Skylake" processor I posted the initial Linux CPU benchmarks as well as results for the new HD Graphics 530 graphics processor with Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver stack. In this article are some complementary data points for this Core i5 Skylake CPU compared to Haswell and Broadwell processors as well as a AMD A10-7870K Godavari APU.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22069