AMD processors are far behind Qualcomm, Intel, and Apple in battery life. Here's why.

[DVDR_Dog]

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AMD processors are far behind Qualcomm, Intel, and Apple in battery life. Here's why.

For now, AMD is behind in battery life compared to Qualcomm, Intel, and Apple. But how far behind exactly?

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[Diguelo]

AMD used to leave Intel miles behind.

Has to be said at this point that AM4 was a step in the wrong direction for management of your PC, although it was a good idea and fast.

Ive made many successful Platform builds using AMD Processors. Cheaper than Intel and in a lot of cases work just as well.

Driver support seems to dry up after a year though.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

I was encouraged to see AMD pull ahead with thinner silicon wafers. That equals less power consumption and cooler running. They followed Apple's lead. A little confused with Intel lately. They seemed to be targeting the lower price yet decent performance sector with their N100-N150 CPUs as well as lower costs for the i5 CPUs. I think they may have temporarily positioned their product line for consumer transition from Win 10 - > 11. With power hungry AI farms being planned, the thinner the silicon wafer chips are, the lower the power and cooling water requirements are.
Speaking of cooling water, this issue hasn't been discussed since nuclear power was proposed for huge deployment. Thermal pollution occurs in water as well. Water tends to hold onto heat longer than air. That additional heat enters our waterways. As a Biologist with a Marine Bio minor, I can attest to the fact that all animals, plants and insects that live in the water are far more sensitive to thermal changes in their environment. Almost all food chains ultimately originate in the water. An aside but even hydro electric destroyed aquatic environments, many of those dams were breached and the ecosystems were reestablished. Let's hope the AI goldrush doesn't have similar consequences.

 

[Diguelo]

Just as an off shoot to this, reliability,

I once went hunting in our local scrap yard for a part for a friends vintage car and came across a stuffed up motherboard that had been driven over a few times. Curiosity got me and I flipped it over to find an AMD AThlon processor in a worse for wear configuration. I had to get it out of its socket with a screwdriver and some canned bture force I had with me.
Water damage was the least thing wrong with it, anyhow, at home I stuck it in some warm soapy water and gave it a toothbrush scrub, then oh my


An hour or so later this came out of all the gunk and not a scratch on it. All the pads were still intact and all were undamaged. I had an old asrock Athlon build in my store so I changed the processor and it came to life, worked great and stayed on for two days of testing.
Finally made up a second build and gave it to my son to play with.

I have to say I do like the AMD packages, they are tough as nails and stand up to a ton of abuse, seen them come out of Coffee and Coke immersion without a scratch or complaint. The motherboard needless to say failed the "I can stand up to a 3 ton forklift driving over it" test but his came out of the wreck. Fan and socket must have sprotected it.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

You can also grill burgers over the heat those Athlons made. They had to be tough.

 

[Diguelo]

TBH I preferred the grill tray coffee warmer.

I think this predated liquid cooling if memory serves.