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Bangalore, May 18

AMD has unveiled energy-efficient desktop processors that would suit the consumers expectations of a smaller more elegant personal computers that deliver the same performance as larger systems. Energy efficient AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core, AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Sempron processors, based on the upcoming socket AM2, are designed to provide significant performance-per-watt advantages over standard processors for commercial and consumer markets. Energy efficient computing is a crucial step for the computing industry as large businesses seek to reduce operating costs. Building on AMD's success in the blade and general purpose server markets with the AMD Opteron processor, energy efficient AMD desktop processors can deliver greater performance-per-watt over standard power AMD desktop processors and can reduce the overall power consumption. For instance, energy efficient AMD desktop processors can provide up to 37 per cent greater performance-per-watt than standard power AMD processors, while energy efficient small form factor AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core desktop processors can provide up to 154 per cent greater performance-per-watt than standard power AMD desktop processors. When running typical workloads, as reflected in the SYSmark 2004 SE benchmark, end users could experience their energy efficient dual-core processor consuming 14 watts.

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