[mythtv-users] power management on combined and backend

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 12:57:45AM +1200, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2018 07:43:33 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> The video card can be using as much as the rest of the PC if you run
> it in a full out gaming 3D mode, but if you buy the cheapest type of
> video card that only does what is needed for TV (which is H.264
> decoding at present), and is incapable of running modern games, then
> you can get rather lower power use there.  Of course, if you want to
> handle 4K video, then you probably want a rather better video card
> that does H.265 decoding, and those have tended to use more power. But
> the recent bottom end cards from Nvidia seem to have H.265 4K
> capability without such large power hunger - they are available in
> fanless versions.

I can attest that the 1030GT works just fine for general 4K at 60Hz
playback. It officially draws a max of 30W (GDDR5) or just 20W
in the SDDR version.

-dsr-