Power Consumption
Power Consumption
Now testing devices with so little power draw is a little icky and tricky to do.
Example of how we measure power consumption
So we monitor the setup in three conditions, IDLE, 100% CPU load and High Definition 1080P playback. Let's have a peek at the numbers.
Now granted, I was hoping to see slightly better power consumption here. The APU should consume a maximum of 18W, the IO chip roughly 4 watts, then we add a SSD. In idle we see a power draw of 28 Watt. Under CPU load roughly 37 Watt and when watching 1080P High Definition content (GPU accelerated) only 35 Watt.
Great stuff to observe really. This might be the most capable power efficient HTPC solution to date.
