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.

Note: While measured, the development kits were placed under a very heavy load - using stress test application putting CPU, memories, Ethernet and HDMI under challenging conditions.

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	0.720	3.727
Linux at idle	5.184	0.423	2.193
Linux + ETH	5.182	0.491	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	5.182	0.524	2.714
Booting-up process (maximum)	5.180	0.893	4.626
Linux at idle	5.181	0.506	2.621
Linux + ETH	5.178	0.570	2.951
Linux + ETH + HDMI	5.175	0.649	3.359
Linux + ETH + HDMI + Stresstest	5.164	1.071	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