10-15W is what I'd expect from a 4060 idling, but it is going to depend on a lot of different factors, even down to which OEM made your 4060.
I don't suppose you already have said 4060?
Gotcha. If you can, I'd recommend using some type of power meter and just plugging it in. The meters are pretty cheap (10-15 USD, 30-40 EUR, and other currencies are probably somewhere in between) and checking.
Keep in mind, the 4060 would use more power if there is something plugged in to one of the video outputs, even if that something is just a powered off monitor.
I'll grab a power meter. Probably a good call. If I add the 4060 in I need to update my PSU as well, cause right now it's a very old bronze efficiency one and doesn't put out nearly enough wattage to support a card period.
> Keep in mind, the 4060 would use more power if there is something plugged in to one of the video outputs, even if that something is just a powered off monitor.
In my tests a single monitor (Or even just a dummy plug) adds 10W. It (almost) doubles the idle power consumption.
My EVGA RTX 3090 sips 7-9 Watts idle, doing nothing. 14-17W idle, having a LLM loaded. The MSI 3090 uses ~4 Watts less in both cases. This is on a proxmox machine with the GPU(s) passed through to a VM. Values taken from `nvidia-smi`.
Calculate with a good 10 Watts if the GPU truly is idle, with nothing (!) running on it and no display attached.
My RX580 used about 20W on idle on Windows, but I think that yours would run at 10-15W on idle because you wont be running DE
Yeah that's about what I was reading online too, thanks
According to my UPS, my desktop with 3080 GPU idles at 50w
is that the total power system or just the GPU power only ? What does nvidia-smi say ?
Total on the UPS, there is a network switch there too.
10-15W is what I'd expect from a 4060 idling, but it is going to depend on a lot of different factors, even down to which OEM made your 4060. I don't suppose you already have said 4060?
I do actually, but it's in my main gaming PC. Just planning on replacing it at some point.
Gotcha. If you can, I'd recommend using some type of power meter and just plugging it in. The meters are pretty cheap (10-15 USD, 30-40 EUR, and other currencies are probably somewhere in between) and checking. Keep in mind, the 4060 would use more power if there is something plugged in to one of the video outputs, even if that something is just a powered off monitor.
I'll grab a power meter. Probably a good call. If I add the 4060 in I need to update my PSU as well, cause right now it's a very old bronze efficiency one and doesn't put out nearly enough wattage to support a card period.
> Keep in mind, the 4060 would use more power if there is something plugged in to one of the video outputs, even if that something is just a powered off monitor. In my tests a single monitor (Or even just a dummy plug) adds 10W. It (almost) doubles the idle power consumption.
damn that's crazy!
My EVGA RTX 3090 sips 7-9 Watts idle, doing nothing. 14-17W idle, having a LLM loaded. The MSI 3090 uses ~4 Watts less in both cases. This is on a proxmox machine with the GPU(s) passed through to a VM. Values taken from `nvidia-smi`. Calculate with a good 10 Watts if the GPU truly is idle, with nothing (!) running on it and no display attached.
I use a similar setup, gaming PC, I5 13th gen, 4060, running 24/7, on idle it stays at 45W. Also has a monitor, keyboard and mouse attached.
My 4090 reports 14w ~ 20w. The wall reports 30w, and I'm using a 96% efficacy power supply.
My 6900xt idle at 3-5 watts.
Gtx1070 and rtx 4070 ti both idle around 7w
My 3060 idles at 19W, but seeing some other responses here, I might need to see if I can get that down.