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AMD A6-3650 APU review - best chip under £100?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 4 August 2011, 08:50 4.0

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Power-draw considerations

There's not much to choose between the IGP-laden systems in the idling test.

Give the CPU cores a workout and the Core i3-2100 is considerably more power-frugal than the reviewed A6-3650.

It seems as if AMD keeps the majority of the 100W TDP of the chip for the CPU cores, as pushing the GPU to the limit via a 10-minute Just Cause 2 test does little to increase overall power-draw.