Re:Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab
by ilyt on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:43PM
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TDP is not something you should look at.
It's just the top, not how low it can go on idle. My VM server has ~35W TDP but gets 20W with SSD/dual NIC and acting as WiFi accesspoint. CPU usage is less than half of that, at those levels motherboard is often the element with highest power consumption and it is hard to get data on which motherboard is most power efficient.
Probably easier with laptops as in theory you can just get run time on battery, battery size and calculate power usage off that.
It's just the top, not how low it can go on idle. My VM server has ~35W TDP but gets 20W with SSD/dual NIC and acting as WiFi accesspoint. CPU usage is less than half of that, at those levels motherboard is often the element with highest power consumption and it is hard to get data on which motherboard is most power efficient.
Probably easier with laptops as in theory you can just get run time on battery, battery size and calculate power usage off that.