| arsenicazure said: nice.. although 125W TDP does sound a lil too high.. |
Ignore that. AMD's TDP figures are theoretical worst-case scenario; Intel's are practical worst-case scenario. For this reason, AMD CPUs with the same average power consumption as an Intel one tend to be rated much higher. The whole system consumes* about about 20% more power than a 65W Intel quad-core at load (giving a 78W Intel-equivalent TDP) and 10% less power than that Intel one at idle (which is where it will spend most of its time).
*From the review I linked to, the 955 consumes similar to a 940. My figures are from another review comparing a 940 to Intel's 65W quad-cores. Since you can't measure CPU power directly, whole system consumption is used, which in fact gives a more accurate representation of the electricity bill and heat output. Source: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3505&p=2
