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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 />
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22.1 22.2 21.1 22.0<br />
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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 />
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3D E-Learning Productivity Video<br />
Creation<br />
CPU<br />
Memory<br />
I/O<br />
Disk<br />
Video