iMX8M Industrial Power Consumption

This page contains power consumption measurements for the iMX8M Industrial Development kits in all the standard webshop configurations. All of the boards used during the test procedure were running the defualt Linux distribution and booted from the eMMC Nand Memory.

Test setup and measuring equipment

• power supply: BK Precision 1688B
• 2x digital multimeter: Fluke 115 True RMS

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	5.183	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 Max

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