iMX8M Industrial Power Consumption

This page contains power consumption measurements for the iMX8M Industrial Development Kits in all 3 standard webshop configurations. All of the sets used during the test procedure were running the default Linux distribution and booted up from the eMMC NAND Flash Memory.

The development kit were also placed under the high performance conditions - power consumption was measured through Linux boot-up all the way to using stress test putting CPU, memories, Ethernet and HDMI under a very heavy load.

Test setup and measuring equipment

• power supply: BK Precision 1688B
• 2x digital multimeter: Fluke 115 True RMS
• measured at: 20°C ambient temperature

Power consumption results

iMX8M Industrial Development Kit Basic

Test condition	Input voltage Vin [V]	Measured current I [A]	Power usage P [W]
Uboot only	5.183	0.463	2.400
Booting-up process (maximum)	5.177	0.72	3.727
Linux at idle	5.184	0.423	2.193
Linux + ETH	5.182	0.49	2.539
Linux + ETH + HDMI	5.179	0.566	2.931
Linux + ETH + HDMI + Stresstest	5.173	0.791	4.092

iMX8M Industrial Development Kit Pro

Test condition	Input voltage Vin [V]	Measured current I [A]	Power usage P [W]
Uboot only	5.18	0.524	2.714
Booting-up process (maximum)	5.18	0.893	4.626
Linux at idle	5.18	0.506	2.621
Linux + ETH	5.178	0.57	2.951
Linux + ETH + HDMI	5.175	0.649	3.359
Linux + ETH + HDMI + Stresstest	5.164	1.07	5.525

iMX8M Industrial Development Kit Max

Test condition	Input voltage Vin [V]	Measured current I [A]	Power usage P [W]
Uboot only	5.173	0.664	3.435
Booting-up process (maximum)	5.172	0.967	5.001
Linux at idle	5.179	0.551	2.854
Linux + ETH	5.177	0.613	3.174
Linux + ETH + HDMI	5.174	0.689	3.565
Linux + ETH + HDMI + Stresstest	5.162	1.145	5.910