MacBook Pro Retina: huge power consumption
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I'm currently running Debian/Jessie on a MacBook Pro Retina 10,1 15" (early-2103). Everything is going well (ethernet, WiFi, retina, etc.) but I worry about its power consumption.
laptop-mode manages the automatic power management of all my devices, all the tunables of powertop are _Good_ and my i7 is running in *powersave* mode. The dicrete Nvidia video card isn't even running (Bumblebee/bbswitch turns it off as I don't need it). All bluetooth, card reader and stuff are disabled.
However, powertop reports the following with **no X11, keyboard and screen brightness set to 0 and all devices powered off**:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 15.7 W
System baseline power is estimated at 15.0 W
Power est. Usage Device name
692 mW 0.3% CPU core
484 mW 29.9% Display backlight
299 mW 0.3% CPU misc
264 mW 0.0 ops/s GPU core
0 mW 32.9% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
0 mW 22.9% USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
0 mW 12.8% USB device: usb-device-0424-2512
0 mW 2.7% USB device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Apple Inc.)
0 mW 0.0% Audio codec hwC0D0: Cirrus Logic
0 mW 0.0% Display backlight
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
0 mW 0.0% USB device: xHCI Host Controller
0 mW 0.0% USB device: xHCI Host Controller
0 mW 0.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
0 mW 0.0% USB device: BRCM20702 Hub (Apple Inc.)
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-05ac-820a
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-05ac-820b
0 mW 0.0% USB device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller (Apple Inc.)
0 mW 0.0 ops/s GPU misc
0 mW 0.0% USB device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) (Apple Inc.)
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Memory Card Reader
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller
100.0% PCI Device: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2
33.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
0.0% PCI Device: Broadcom Corporation Device 16a3
0.0% PCI Device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
0.0% PCI Device: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition]
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller
Manually doing the sum gives a ridiculously low value, but powertop stills report a 15W consumption.
However, running powertop in interactive mode in X11 gives me more plausible values:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 29.0 W
System baseline power is estimated at 16.4 W
Power est. Usage Device name
12.3 W 100.0% Display backlight
8.01 W 29.9% Display backlight
4.61 W 19.4% CPU core
3.78 W 419.6 ops/s GPU misc
3.12 W 4.3 pkts/s Network interface: wlan0 (b43)
2.76 W 19.4% CPU misc
1.35 W 419.6 ops/s GPU core
188 mW 100.0% USB device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Apple Inc.)
What? My retina display is consuming 20W? No way! (actually, with a 50% brightness it gives like 15W, which is *huge*). Also, sometimes the Apple Internal Keyboard is consuming 5 W.
It's not even a bug in powertop since my battery is indeed discarging very fast (like 2h30 when fully charged with only X11 running).
- Do you guys have an idea of what my problem is? I saw on other sites that some MBPr users report 10 W power consumption, or even less
- Why is there this huge difference between the "battery discharge rate report" and the "system baseline power"?
- Is that normal that my Screen and Keyboard use that much power?
I'm running a 3.10-3-amd64 stock kernel.
Asked by user48969
Oct 10, 2013, 08:45 PM