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At the other extreme, the productivity workload rarely utilizes more than a single core.<br />

Since Quad-Core AMD processor power adaptations are applied at the core level,<br />

frequency reduction achieves significant power savings on the three idle cores. As a<br />

result, the productivity workload consumes much less power than the 3D workload. <strong>The</strong><br />

remaining workloads offer intermediate levels of thread-level parallelism and there<strong>for</strong>e<br />

have intermediate levels of power consumption. Also note that this level of power<br />

reduction is due only to frequency scaling. With the addition of core-level voltage<br />

scaling, the variation/power savings is expected to increase considerably.<br />

Power(Watts)<br />

90<br />

80<br />

70<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

33.1<br />

18.7<br />

10.9 10.5 10.3 10.1<br />

13.9 13.8 13.7 13.8<br />

22.1 22.2 21.1 22.0<br />

3.7 3.7 3.7 3.6<br />

Figure 4.5 Desktop Subsystem Power Breakdown<br />

4.1.4 Desktop Plat<strong>for</strong>m - SPEC CPU, 3DMark and SYSmark<br />

To understand subsystem-level power consumption average and standard deviation<br />

results are presented. Figure 4.6 displays average power of each subsystem measured in<br />

Watts. To give an indication of the variation in power consumption Table 4.1 displays<br />

49<br />

14.3<br />

29.4<br />

3D E-Learning Productivity Video<br />

Creation<br />

CPU<br />

Memory<br />

I/O<br />

Disk<br />

Video

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