Fanless Htpc Intel Pentium J2900 Bay Trail D Quad Core Asrock Q2900 Itx Review Power Consumption

At idle, the Pentium J2900 system consumed 29 watts, which is comparable to the AMD Athlon 5350 and 5150.

Under full load the Pentium J2900 pulled 16% more power than the Celeron J1900 to match the Sempron 3850 at 37 watts. Still, this meant that the J2900 consumed 16% less power than the Athlon 5350 and 30% less than the Celeron G1820.

The Pentium J2900 remained fuel efficient when measuring CPU and GPU load with a total system consumption of just 41 watts.