| smbu2000 said: The increase in battery size was pretty insignificant at only 6% or 7%. The increase in battery life was 70%! The majority of that is from the Haswell cpu, which is clocked lower than last years IB cpu but still gives roughly the same performance. They updated the SSS, which improves performance and added support for ac wireless, nothing really relating to power consumption. |
Haswell uses allot less power at idle compared to Ivy Bridge, which is where you see the big gains as generally with any PC that's the state they spend the most time in. (Even whilst doing basic tasks like web browsing!)
However, when the chips are under load it will use a little more power than Ivy-bridge (I.E. 4770K vs 3770K), but that could be due to Intel being new in the integrated voltage regulation game, give it a couple of generations for Intel to be more aggressive rather than conservative with it.
I would be interested to see Intel implement a resonant clock mesh later down the line to see what kind of power impact that has, it did wonders for AMD!
darkknightkryta said:
At a bajillion frames per second!!!! |
First thing I did with my PC when I built it was... Play Minecraft. xD
Truly pushing my system to the limits!
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