Intel Core i7-5775C With Iris Pro Graphics Review: Broadwell For Desktops

Name: Intel Core i7-5775C
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, July 24, 2015, 02:17 PM EDT

Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we also monitored how much power our test systems consumed using a power meter. Our goal was to give you all an idea as to how much power each configuration used while idling and while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not just the power being drawn by the processors alone.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

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The Intel Core i7-5775C virtually sips power. With this 14nm Broadwell-based CPU in our test system it pulled only 35 watts from the outlet at idle, and that number went up to only 97 watts with the CPU under a 100% load. We should mention, however, that with the GPU also under load, peak power consumption jumps up into the 125w range. And while overclocked to 4.2GHz, we saw power jump all the way up to the 165w range.

Tags: Intel, CPU, processor, i7, Broadwell, Iris

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com