Raspberry Pi 4 firmware update to dramatically improve performance and reduce overall power consumption
The Raspberry Pi 4 is the latest single-board microcomputer launched by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Compared with the previous version, the Raspberry Pi 4 brings a lot of improvements in hardware configuration. However, as the hardware performance improves, the power consumption will increase and bring heat dissipation problems. For this reason, the Raspberry Pi has released multiple rounds of firmware for optimization in the past four months. Recently, the official Raspberry Pi also released the latest test report so that we can understand the power consumption and heat dissipation, and also provide operating instructions on heat dissipation.
In the latest beta firmware, the Raspberry Pi 4 can automatically adjust the power consumption and adjust the voltage to minimize the power consumption at the load without affecting the performance of the processor. The intuitive experience brought by this round of firmware optimization is that the power consumption is only 2.1W when idle, and only 6.41W under load, which is the best data so far.
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At the same time that the power consumption is reduced, the heat emitted will also be reduced. In this case, the system can directly perform the maximum performance without the need to adjust the processor frequency.
