Power consumption of the Raspberry Pi Model B & B+ & an Arduino Uno R3

published May 09, 2015 11:50   by admin ( last modified May 11, 2015 09:59 )



A lightly-loaded model B with keyboard = 1.89 W -> daily 45.36 Wh
A lightly-loaded model B+ with keyboard = 1.21 W -> daily 29.04 Wh
B+ with LAN/USB chip off (no i/o except GPIO) = 0.76 W -> daily 18.24 Wh B+ shut down = 0.26 W -> daily 6.24 Wh
The B+ really offers huge improvements in the power circuitry. Wow!

For an Arduino Uno it seems to be around 230 mW at idle, and putting it to sleep helps a bit mut not that much since the USB is still running it seems, so about a 25% saving only.

It seems that a Raspberry pi B+ can compete with an Arduino Uno in idle in terms of power consumption. You've got to get one of the Arduinos without USB to get to the real low power stuff.
 

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