AMD FX-8350 (AM3+) Piledriver Processor Review

Power Consumption

To test power consumption, we monitor the overall power of the system through a plug-in electricity usage monitor at an idle and load state. This allows us to show the fluctuation between how much power draw the system takes at idle and at load. By monitoring the overall usage of the whole system, it gives an easy comparison if you wish to do the same yourself as opposed to buying very expensive individual testing equipment.

Looking at power consumption, we can see that the FX 8350 does use more power than the 8150 at load, but idle uses considerably less. The overclock also uses less power than the 8150 showing that AMD have squeezed out more performance without it running up your electricity bills, thus costing more money.