AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Overclocking Analysis
Ryan Martin / 10 years ago
Power Consumption
Power consumption was a strong point of the Kaveri A10-7850K. Even by lumping a 42% overclock onto the GPU the power consumption with a realistic combined system load only jumped 21 Watts. On a purely GPU load it jumped 31 Watts, which is a 40% jump so nearly aligns perfectly with the 42% frequency increase. However, with the overclock the A10-7850K was still more power efficient on a combined workload than the last generation A10-6800K APU (at stock clocks on both the CPU and GPU with slower DDR3-1866MHz memory).
