AMD Bulldozer Thread

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Though the power draw of BD is certainly disappointing, THG was a little sneaky by disabling the Intel on-chip HD graphics and using an HD6850.

That saved 20-30w right there.

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Though the power draw of BD is certainly disappointing, THG was a little sneaky by disabling the Intel on-chip HD graphics and using an HD6850.

That saved 20-30w right there.

That is probably done for fairness. When you can't match up specs exactly since they are different platforms, you still try to make it as similar as possible. The likely purpose of the test was to compare efficiency in a system for workloads(none gaming). Since Zambezi doesn't have integrated graphics, they have no choice but to use a videocard. Intel could run off of the integrated graphics if need be for the test desired.

What would be an unfair test would to have the amd processor use a dedicated, while the intel used its integrated. Since none of these benchmarks are gaming ones, Intel would have the clear advantage since using integrated would probably save more power than using the 6850.