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by ribit 1551 days ago
By using the provided system tools that report power usage of the GPU cluster? Also, I am telling you the system diagnostics output if an actual physical machine. What are you quoting Wikipedia for? You can literally go measure these things. Should I go edit Wikipedia so that you get correct information?

Anyway, power usage of M1 variants has been studied in detail. It’s 5 watts peak for a single performance core, 20W peak for a CPU cluster of four cores, 10W for a 8-core GPU (128 FP32 ALUs per core). Bigger M1 variants have respectively higher power consumption because of the larger interconnects/caches etc. DRAM is also a factor. Running at full bandwidth is can consume over 10W of power.