Mobility Radeon X300 Power Consumption Testing of CPU usage and power consumption under different ATI/AMD Radeon Linux driver configurations over the years on Ubuntu for an old crusty Mobility Radeon X300 found on an IBM ThinkPad R52 notebook. For a future article on Phoronix by Michael Larabel.
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Mobility Radeon X300 Power Consumption Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 0.80GHz (1 Core) IBM 18494WU Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M 2048MB 80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00 AMD Mobility Radeon X300 128MB Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI + Intel PRO/Wireless Ubuntu 11.10 3.2.1-030201-generic-pae (i686) Unity 4.22.0 X Server 1.10.4 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-faa90ab) Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2) ext4 1400x1050 Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 1.87GHz (1 Core) ThinkPad R52 AMD Radeon Mobility M300 Ubuntu 6.06 2.6.15-26-386 (i686) GNOME 2.14.3 X Server 7.0.0 fglrx 8.25.18 2.0.5814 GCC 4.0.3 ext3 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power. - Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18: This was running on battery power.
Mobility Radeon X300 Power Consumption warsow: 800 x 600 Difference Standard Error Standard Deviation Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 9.92 2.12x 0.20 5.04% 4.67 1.00x 0.07 2.47% OpenBenchmarking.org
Timed Idle CPU Usage Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated 0.0 1.5 12.4 Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 0.0 0.9 12.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Percent, Fewer Is Better Timed Idle CPU Usage Monitor 4 8 12 16 20
Timed Idle System Power Consumption Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated 20888 21254 24045 Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 18666 19146 20190 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts, Fewer Is Better Timed Idle System Power Consumption Monitor 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K
Warsow Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.20, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 9.92 4.67
Warsow CPU Usage Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated 10.0 45.0 100.0 Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 40.4 98.9 100.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Percent, Fewer Is Better Warsow 0.5 CPU Usage Monitor 20 40 60 80 100
Warsow System Power Consumption Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated 23343 28801 32318 Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 20775 25639 29669 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts, Fewer Is Better Warsow 0.5 System Power Consumption Monitor 8K 16K 24K 32K 40K
CPU Usage Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Min Avg Max Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated 0.0 39.9 100.0 Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 0.0 80.1 100.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Percent CPU Usage Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring 20 40 60 80 100
System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Min Avg Max Ubuntu 11.10 - Updated 20888 27880 32318 Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18 18666 24363 29669 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring 8K 16K 24K 32K 40K
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