In this test I used each machine over many days performing a variety of general desktop tasks including, but not limited, to web surfing, email, compiling source code, watching video, listening to music, and running virtualized machines.
The chart shows the power consumption of each machine. The figures are the power draw for the machine, not just the CPU.
Another impressive result for the BOSGAME machine considering that it’s much faster than the N100 machine.
Notes about the chart:
- The tasks do not include any activities that are GPU intensive such as gaming, running locally-hosted AI apps, video recording / live streaming etc.
- While the tests access software that uses the GPU (such as Xorg), the GPU power consumption is minimal (with the exception of the i5-12400F as the machine’s dedicated graphics card draws 21W at idle).
- Two screens are used on each machine.
- The i5-12400F machine hosts a dedicated graphics card, whereas the other machines all use onboard graphics.
- The Balanced CPU governor is used.
- The machines are running Ubuntu 25.04 with the exception of the Minisforum machine which is running Manjaro.
Next page: Page 3 – Power Consumption With CPU Stressed
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Power Consumption With System Idle
Page 2 – Power Consumption With Light Usage
Page 3 – Power Consumption With CPU Stressed
Page 4 – Electricity Costs
Complete list of articles in this series:
| BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the machine |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the BOSGAME M4 Plus |
| Power | Testing and comparing the power consumption |
| Cores | AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS |
| Noise | Comparing the machine's noise with other mini PCs |
Interesting!
i have 2 of these 1 maxed out with 64gig of ram plus
two 4tb m.2 and it goes like lightning. it recognises the yottamaster 42tb
and also a 4 bay 40tb ugreen nas and also an old lexmark c746dn
i am using linux mint plug them all in turn on and
every thing just no external drivers needed. i got in touch with bosgame
to find out whether i can us 96gig sticks and she said yes but that is maximum
just thought i wold let you know well worth the cash.
My minisforum mini PC goes a lot faster.
And is probably more expensive.
which one have you got?
I’ve got the Minisforum AI X1 Pro. I bought it after reading the series on this site. It’s an awesome mini PC. I’ve got 3 Crucial 4TB NVMe SSDs in it and 128GB of RAM.
The MediaTek Wi-Fi isn’t the finest so I replaced that. It’s now amazing in every respect.
yep iv’e got 64 gig on mine and two 4tb m.2ssd
iv’e also got a bosgame egpu 6700m xt for games over oculink
i was looking at the minisforum AI X1 pro
i did buy the minisforun AI X1 bear bones it is nice. put in 32gig and a 2tb drive runs quit well on ollama on gemma3. i am talking about my m4 plus now.
how fast is it mine is pretty quick on the igpu i am getting 30fps on furmark on the 6700m xt i am getting 130 fps
blue tooth is very good in the garden it began to stutter
but that trough 2 brick walls and about 10 more feet
and i say it is worth every penny
i don/t use my main pc much now