Pi state power consumption.
Raspberry pi 4 power consumption watts.
For raspberry pi 4 we recommend our 3a usb c supply.
If you use wi fi instead of ethernet you re still looking at 4 2 watts.
The pi 3 model b saw it s power consumption increase by 50 from compared to the pi 2 model b.
As you d expect higher power consumption will lead to much of the energy being converted to heat.
The power requirements of the raspberry pi increase as you make use of the various interfaces on the raspberry pi.
Raspberry pi 4 b.
For raspberry pi 0 3 we recommend our 2 5a micro usb supply.
See this post for more information and instructions how to do all of the above.
I m seeing power consumption a little higher than your measurements but this may depend on if you re booting to a cli or desktop and what networking you are using.
The biggest issue i see with this increased power consumption is the additional heat.
The gpio pins can draw 50ma safely distributed across all the pins.
An individual gpio pin can only safely draw 16ma.
Especially if you put this pi 4 in the official pi 4 case with zero ventilation.
That s considerably more than the raspberry pi 3 b s consumption with 3 1 watts ethernet and 2 5 watts wi fi.
When idle the new raspberry pi requires 4 4 watts with a usb keyboard mouse and ethernet.
540 ma 2 7 w ab n 100 c 10 uncached 1010 ma 5 1 w 400 cpu load stress cpu 4 1280 ma 6 4 w raspberry pi 3 b.
Conserve raspberry pis power consumption.
When the raspberry pi 4 first came out it ran much hotter.
The official raspberry pi 4 power supply which costs around 10.