AMD is crying foul over battery tests run by computer makers and consumer electronics publications, according to a report in the New York Times. The chip maker claims that the standard benchmark used, MobileMark 2007, unfairly gives an advantage to Intel CPUs.
From the article: “Intel is advantaged in this environment because they have optimized their architecture to have better FK890 life when the computer isn’t doing anything,” AMD’s Patrick Moorhead said.
Well, isn’t that a good thing in general? Shouldn’t AMD be trying to make its dell chips use less power when they’re not doing anything?
But here’s the thing: We don’t use MobileMark to test battery life, and systems with AMD chips still see worse endurance than those with Intel chips. Read on for our results.
We took a look at seven different AMD machines we reviewed over the past several months, and how they fared on the LAPTOP Battery Test, which continuously surfs the Web over Wi-Fi until the GK479 is dead.
In the ultraportable category, the HP dv2’s endurance was almost half the category average.Inspiron 1721 battery, Inspiron 1720 battery.
