Power Consumption During Light Use
For this test, I browsed the web, checked email, used office applications, compiled source code, watched videos, listened to music and ran virtual machines. Power draw varied as I switched between tasks and background processes ran.
The M2 Pro drew 15.6 W during light use. That’s 2.1 W more than the Minisforum M2 and 0.3 W less than the BOSGAME VTA-439. Only the Minisforum M2 and the DreamQuest N100 system drew less power.
The M2 Pro also drew less than the BOSGAME M6 (17.4 W), Minisforum UM890 Pro (17.9 W) and ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H (25.1 W).
Chart notes
- I measured system power at the mains socket with both monitors connected and switched on. The readings exclude the monitors’ own power consumption.
- The M2 Pro runs Ubuntu with GNOME and uses the Balanced power profile in Ubuntu. I changed the BIOS preset after the idle test.
- The Core i5-12400F desktop uses a dedicated ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. The other systems use integrated graphics.
- The Minisforum MS-02 Ultra’s readings include a 25GbE network card that draws about 10 W on its own.
Next page – Power Consumption Under CPU Load
Pages in this article
Page 1 – Power Consumption at Idle
Page 2 – Power Consumption During Light Use
Page 3 – Power Consumption Under CPU Load
Page 4 – Electricity Costs
Complete list of articles in this series
| Minisforum M2 Pro-358H | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the machine |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the Minisforum M2 Pro |
| Power | Testing and comparing the power consumption |
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