PC’s power consumption issue wins back public focus once again since Intel published its new-generation Core 2 Duo processor. Thanks to its new Core micro-architecture and more advanced 65nm transistors, Core 2 Duo processor has lower clock speed Compared with the dated Pentium D 900 series, thus finds a balance between performance and power consumption.

AMD never stop chasing. Not only pushing 65nm manufacture process, AMD has also managed to make CPU consume less power by some other means. You may have seen some energy-saver products in AMD’s 90nm Athlon64 X2 series, but at that time, 90nm became the bottleneck and made everything mediocre. At present, the new-debut 65nm Athlon64 X2 processors already enjoy a 65W TDP.

On the TDP side, Intel and AMD’s mainstream desktop processors stay on a same scratch line, but when it comes to dynamic power management, Intel leaps ahead.