I’m using s-tui to stress the CPU. It provides a convenient frontend to the stress utility.
The MS-R1 stays remarkably cool even with full CPU load.
The power saver, balanced and performance governors didn’t affect power consumption with the MS-R1 with the exception of the performance mode where the fan runs at full speed drawing slightly higher power usage.
The MS-R1 uses slightly more watts than the Pi 6 Plus even though both have the same CPU. What’s impressive about the MS-R1 is that it’s power consumption is lower than the Intel 10th generation machine even though it’s not that far away in terms of CPU performance.
Next page: Page 4 – Electricity Costs
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:
| Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the Mini Workstation |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation |
| Power | Testing and comparing the power consumption |