Power consumed by household appliances and computers - ZX Spectrum, PC, laptops
Power consumed by household appliances and computers
by AmoNik
(Measurements collected over many years)
ZX Spectrum+ 128K
- only 2.3 W power supply
- all together 13.6 W
Computer Scorpion ZS 256 Turbo+ in ATX case:
- standby 1 W
- operation 22.7 W
Scorpio GMX - 19.8 W
Pentagon 102ХSL - 21 W
Amiga 500 - 15.7 W
Amiga 1200 with accelerator Blizzard 68030@50
- 3D 25 W
- 2D 24 W
Computer 48bDXCh-120 - 35 W
Computer Pentium 233 MMX - 47 W
Computer AMD C60
- standby 1.8 W
- OS loading 26.5 W
- operation less than 28 W
Computer Pentium 3S - 1266/ Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon 9600 Pro)/
2xHDD
- standby 4.4 W- desktop 115.8 W (84.9 W)
- Quake III - 126.9 W (84.9 W)
- maximum 144 W
Computer Pentium 4 3400 MHz
- standby 3.4 W
- Windows running - 129.4 W
- stress test 245 W
- ATI Tools Benchmark - 315 W
- in game 262 W
Computer core i7
- standby 0.6 W
- Windows 7 running - 80 W
- performance test - 346 W
- in the game Battlefield 3 - 280 W
- stress test - 288 W
Laptop Toshiba Satellite 3ЗOCDT with CompactFlash:
- 1.7 W power supply
- standby 2.9 W
- MS-DOS - 20.2 W
- copying from FDD - 21.5 W
- copying from CD - 23.3 W
- emulator REALSPECTRUM - 19.5 W
- Z8OStealth emulator - 20.9 W
Playstation 1 (old model)
- standby mode 1.2 W
- included without 5.4 W disk
- game running 6.5-9.1 W
Playstation 1 (new model)
- standby mode 0.8 W
- included without disk 5.0 W
- game running 7.5-8.8 W
Playstation 2 model 39xxx
- standby 1.1 W
- in the menu 31.9 W
- game 45 W
Playstation 2 model 50008
- standby mode 3.2 W
- in the menu 22.6 W
- ingame 35 W
XBOX 360
- standby 1.7 W
- in the menu 87 W
- in game 92 W
Nintendo Wii with DVD drive emulator
- standby 1.3 W
- menu 13.4 W
- game from SD card 12.7 W
The same Nintendo Wii, without a DVD emulator, but with a hard drive for
USB:
- in standby mode 1.4 W
- included in the menu 14.8 W
- SNES emulator - 13.5 W
- playing New Super Mario Brothers in Wii mode - 15.9 W
- Need For Speed Underground game in Gamecube mode - 15.7 W
Record player Radiotekhnika Melody 103 Stereo - 17 W
CD player Technics
- standby 2.0 W
- just turned on 5.3 W
- disc playback 6.8 W
Music center AIWA
- standby mode 6.1 W
- radio 13.1 W
- Line In - 10.3 W
Music center Pioneer
- standby 9.8 W
- radio 21 W
- cassette 23.8 W
- CD player - 25.4 W
Radio Panasonic
- standby mode 1.8 W
- included 6.4 W
- tape recorder 7.6 W (loud)
- CD - 7.6 W(loud)
- radio 6.4 W (loud)
Pioneer sound amplifier - 23.1 W at a comfortable volume level
Multimedia speakers Tzunami - 2.4 W
SVEN multimedia speakers:
- standby 0 W
- enabled with default settings 19.7 W
- MUTE mode - 19.1 W
VCR SAMSUNG
- sleep 6.4 W
- included 6.4 W
- viewing 16.1 W
- cassette rewind 19.4 W
VCR SONY SLV-E1bOEE:
- standby 4.1 W
- on 13.4 W
- playback 16.9 W
- rewind 18.2 W
DVD Player Pioneer
- in standby mode 1.4 W
- in operating mode (disc search) 8.4 W
- in operating mode (DVD-Video playback) 6.8 W
CRT monitor Philips CM 8833-II
- without signal 47.4-49.8 W
- bright background 58.5 W
- dynamics 48 W
Samsung LCD monitor 17 inches
- standby 1.4 W
- in operation (maximum) 26 W
TV SAMSUNG CRT 54 cm
- in standby mode approximately 8 W
- in operating mode 45-65 W depending onimage brightness
SONY LCD TV 20 inches
- off 0.6 W
- standby 14.4 W
- operation 40.3 W maximum
Toshiba LCD TV 40 inches
- standby 0 W
- TV - 63.6-147.4 W
Halogen spotlight - 140 W
Wi-Fi access point DLink - 4.1-4.9 W
Trendnet switch - 6.8 W
Asus router - 7.8 W
Router (it is not specified which one, but apparently TP-LINK WR-10ЧЗND) - 4.7 W
Firewall
- no load 8.5 W
- one computer on a 9.4 W network
Epson FX 890 matrix printer
- standby 3.9-14.5 W
- printing 57.3 W
Printer Star LC 20 matrix
- standby 7.7 W
- printing 30.7 W
NEC P5200 matrix printer
- standby 18.9 W
- printing 56.3 W
Samsung typewriter
- enabled 2.9 W
- prints 31.9 W
Scart Switcher Philips - 2.8-2.9 W
AVU HF Pascal-2250
- standby mode 2.7 W
- off hook 3.8 W
Siemens Gigaset phone (Radio)
- off-hook 1.2 W
- the handset charges at 2.4 W
Charger JVC - 1.5 W
Charger LaCrosse
- charges 4 batteries with a current of 200 mA - 3.6 W
- charges 4 batteries with a current of 700 mA - 10.9 W
Refrigerator
- standby 2.1 W
- 1st camera 72-88 W
- 2nd camera 62-67 W
- lighting 49.8 W
Philips electric shaver - 2 W
Toaster - 770-791 W
Polisher - 132 W
Shoe dryer mice 21.3 - 12 W
Heating pad - 27 W
Table fan
- first speed 9.4 W
- second speed 14.9 W
Floor fan
- first speed 37.0-37.9 W
- second speed 40.0-40.8W
- third speed 40.4 W
- backlight 0 W
Vacuum cleaner Samsung - 980-1010 W
Vacuum cleaner Karcher (without water) - 1225 W
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