This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. In this series, I’ll examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective. I’ll compare the machine with other machines, including desktop machines, to put the results into context.
The BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC is the latest addition to the wide range of mini PCs from BOSGAME. This mini PC is based on the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with integrated AMD Radeon 890M iGPU. The processor has 12 cores (24 threads) with a CPU Mark of around 35104. The machine came with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe disk which will be sufficient for most use cases.
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC (“BOSGAME M6”) I’ll compare it to 6 mini PCs and a couple of desktop machines. Specifically, the Minisforum AI X1 Pro (“Ryzen AI 9 HX 370”), BOSGAME M4 Plus (“Ryzen 9 7940HS”), Minisforum UM890 Pro (“Ryzen 9 8945HS”), ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H with an Intel (“Core Ultra 7 255H”), the Intel NUC i7-1360P (“i7-1360P”), DreamQuest Intel N100 (“N100”), and desktop machines with “i5-10400” and “i5-12400F” processors.
Let’s start with the power consumption when each machine is idling.
As the charts show, the BOSGAME M6’s power consumption is very low although not quite as low as the Minisforum machine with the same processor.
Even though the N100 has a processor with a much lower TDP (only 6W), power consumption is almost identical with the BOSGAME M6. If you’re thinking of running a machine mostly idling, the N100 won’t offer any significant saving compared to the M6.
- The chart measures the power consumption of each system (not just the CPU).
- The i5-12400F machine hosts a dedicated graphics card, whereas the other machines all have onboard graphics. Power consumption even at idle is much higher with a dedicated graphics card, in this case an NVIDIA Asus RTX 3060 Ti. That graphics card, itself, consumes 11W with the machine at idle with two screens off, 21W idle with two screens on, as reported by nvidia-smi.
- The BOSGAME M4 Plus, Minisforum AI X1 Pro, i5-12400F and i5-10400 machines offer BIOS power management options. This power management is enabled. The other machines don’t offer power management functionality.
- For the i5-10400 machine, the BIOS offers options to enable Asus Performance Enhancement as well as a Performance Mode. With both these options enabled, the PC idles at 22.2W and 24.9W with both screens off and on respectively. Having the power functionality disabled therefore makes a significant difference.
- The Power Saver CPU governor is used.
- The machines are running Ubuntu 25.10 with the exception of the Minisforum machines which are running Manjaro (an Arch-based distribution).
Next page: Page 2 – Power Consumption With Light usage
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 M6 HX370 AI Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the machine |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI Mini PC |
| Power | Testing and comparing the power consumption |