@soeffi yes, I’m also very impressed.
Note that I measured power consumption of H3 device only - it’s DC measurement after power supply (AC/DC converter).
It’s not measured on AC side (~230V) where is not only H3 device but also power supply which has some losses (efficiency about 80-90% usually).
With newest BIOS 1.11 and OS Debian 11 + DietPi + kernel 6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64 when nothing is running:
see details about my running system on H3 - idle:
my HW configuration:
» RAM: 1x 16GB Crucial 3200MHz (CT16G4SFRA32A)
- but it works on lower frequency because Odroid H3(+) doesn’t support 3200 MHz RAM
(it supports up to 2933 MT/s (DDR4-PC23400))
» SSD: 1x SATA 480GB KINGSTON (SA400S37480G)
- in my experience and measurements m.2 drives are a bit more power hungry
Some OS / SW details:
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powertopreport: PowerTOP report (using commandpowertop --html=report.html) -
my whole dmesg log: dmesg@odroidH3_1.11_6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64 - Pastebin.com
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neofetch:
neofetch _,met$$$$$gg. dietpi@saf ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. ---------- ,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64 ,$$P' `$$$. Host: ODROID-H3 1.0 ',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64 `d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 2 days, 4 hours, 23 mins $$P d$' , $$P Packages: 280 (dpkg) $$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.1.4 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Terminal: /dev/pts/0 Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' CPU: Intel Celeron N5105 (4) @ 2.900GHz `$$b "-.__ Memory: 172MiB / 15849MiB `Y$$ `Y$$. `$$b. `Y$$b. `"Y$b._ `""" -
htop screenshot:
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dietpi-benchmark (two runs):
Benchmarks completed: (max 12.95 W ⚡️) - CPU performance : Duration = 2.15 seconds (lower is faster) - CPU temps : Idle = 36 °C | Full load = 42 °C - RootFS I/O : Write = 312 MiB/s | Read = 444 MiB/s - RAM I/O : Write = 1807 MiB/s | Read = 4837 MiB/s Benchmarks completed: (max 12.90 W ⚡️) - CPU performance : Duration = 2.12 seconds (lower is faster) - CPU temps : Idle = 32 °C | Full load = 38 °C - RootFS I/O : Write = 310 MiB/s | Read = 443 MiB/s - RAM I/O : Write = 1771 MiB/s | Read = 4851 MiB/s- dietpi-benchmark on Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB RAM) (with SATA SSD over USB3) for comparison:
RPi4: Benchmarks completed: - CPU performance : Duration = 7.66 seconds (lower is faster) - CPU temps : Idle = 40 °C | Full load = 45 °C - RootFs I/O : Write = 28 MiB/s | Read = 214 MiB/s - RAM I/O : Write = 344 MiB/s | Read = 681 MiB/s
I have idle power consumption around only 1.1 — 1.2 W in average ! see: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
In order to achieve such low power consumption we need apply a couple of tweaks:
- upgrade BIOS to newest (version 1.11 in this time - end of January 2023)
- run:
powertop --auto-tune(before that, install it:sudo apt install powertop) - in BIOS: enable ASPM (I enabled also SA GV but only -0.1W, maybe it was measurement error)
- without ASPM idle power consumption: 2.6 — 2.8 W
- without ASPM idle power consumption: 2.6 — 2.8 W
- make sure in idle CPU core frequencies are 800MHz (using
powertoptool) - to decrease power consumption even further you can use eMMC module instead of SSD. But it’s most expensive storage (considering price per GB) https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/128gb-emmc-module-h2-2/ see forum: H3 - how to reduce power consumption ? - ODROID
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If you really want to have a low power machine, forget SSDs and use eMMC instead.
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//edit: later (in one week) I will add measurements with some running docker containers… I plan to migrate from RPi4 to H3. I have some services running in docker: portainer, unifi-controller, pihole, plex and Home Assistant. I would like to run HA Supervised, but I’m not sure if it’s possible on DietPi. There is built-in support for Home Assistant in DietPi - but it is installed within a dedicated Python environment. I don’t know much about it.