It's interesting to note the power consumption across all motherboards because energy results can fluctuate between manufacturers due to the features and specifications that are integrated. First of all, for the idle tests the system is cold booted into Windows and no additional applications are executed - the watts are noted on the external energy monitor we use. Then the system is loaded with LinX 0.6.4 and MSI Kombustor simultainiously - watts are again monitored throughout the period of testing and the highest rated watts are then noted down. Below are the results of this energy test.
As a fair comparison, we took the readings measured on the A10 6800K using the G1.Sniper A88X which is the same setup we are testing the A10 7850K on. Generally speaking, the Kaveri chip manages to cut down the power usage a little over its predecessor.
