I’d question that. I have three 3080 and they’re consistently about 8W each with one ssd and onboard graphics. I even went so far to splice three barrel jacks to a single 60w power supply that powers all three to avoid the losses of an additional 2 power supplies and this gets me the 8w idle power with Debian and throttling.
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fightforlife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I had an optiplex 3060 with 8500t, 24gb ram and 2 ssds idling around 3-5watts.
czardestructo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
fightforlife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which fom factor do you have? And did you install powertop and tlp? The newer Intel CPUs need a little more power in idle. Old comment as reference: www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/…/gqvs35l/
czardestructo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have the micro form factor I assume the same as you. Basically just a laptop in a small desktop case. I never installed tlp I’ll have to give that a shot but I’m pretty sure it’s optimized. I have two as servers and one as a router and I’d love to get it down to 12w total! I monitor the whole server rack with an iotawatt and all my servers and networking gear hovers around 75w idle.
Mir@programming.dev 3 months ago
That’s impressive! I have less everything, how can I know how much it takes while idle? External device?