Power Baseline

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Goal

The purpose of this set of measurements was to attempt to establish a metric for a power measurement that could be used by QA to determine if a given build used more or less power while in the idle state.

Conclusions (Still Ongoing)

  • For the original definition of idle it is not feasible to have a single run test that compare against a baseline. The variance is just too large and heavily dependent on the WLAN activity during the test. Achieving a useful number would require the average of many, many runs.
  • Measurements with the WLAN disabled had variance that was much less but still showed a machine to machine variation of x

Test Details

Measurement Set 1

Conditions

Measurement Set 2

Conditions