Ubuntu 12.04 Idling NVIDIA Idling power consumption on battery of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit PAE on Lenovo ThinkPad W510 when testing stock Nouveau, nomodeset to VESA fallback, and the NVIDIA binary driver in Ubuntu Precise repository.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Idling NVIDIA Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution NVIDIA Binary Blob Stock - Nouveau VESA Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.47GHz (8 Cores) LENOVO 4318CTO Intel Core DMI 4096MB 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz) Conexant CX20585 Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-22-generic-pae (i686) Unity 5.8.0 X Server 1.11.3 NVIDIA 295.33 3.3.0 NVIDIA GCC 4.6 ext4 1600x900 nouveau 0.0.16 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 LLVMpipe Unity 2D 5.8.0 1024x768 OpenBenchmarking.org Processor Details - Scaling Governor: ondemand System Details - NVIDIA Binary Blob: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power. - Stock - Nouveau: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power. - VESA: This was running on battery power.
Ubuntu 12.04 Idling NVIDIA NVIDIA Binary Blob Stock - Nouveau VESA OpenBenchmarking.org
Timed Idle System Power Consumption Monitor Min Avg Max NVIDIA Binary Blob 17930 18426 20238 VESA 17947 19803 26992 Stock - Nouveau 18360 20667 28351 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts, Fewer Is Better Timed Idle System Power Consumption Monitor 7K 14K 21K 28K 35K
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