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I just realized that his tiny screen consumes 120W when turned on. Does any of you have a recommendation for a screen that doesn't consume so much energy?

christophilus 4y ago
Your comment made me check my own (LG Ultrafine 5k) and it’s 140W… That’s crazy. I love this monitor, but am interested in a high quality, lower power option if anyone knows of one.
- mhb 4y ago
  Crazy? At 20 cents/kWh, running it for 12 hours a day costs 34 cents per day or $123/year.
  - hedora 4y ago
    My entire house idles at 500W. That includes two fridges, a freezer, a NAS, multiple internet uplinks, lighting, an always-on desktop, a half-dozen IoT gizmos and five wireless access points. The house averages 1-2 kW (including laundry, water heater, water treatment, hvac, dishwasher, oven, cooktop, etc). A 140W monitor would meaningfully increase these numbers.
- mgraupner 4y ago
  Did you really measure these 140 W or does the power brick says 140 W?
  - glowingly 4y ago
    My LG monitor has a brick that goes to 65W, but the measured power consumption is ~20W at the wall. ~12W in short idle (screen turned off less than ~1 min ago). ~0W in deep sleep, which is where it spends most of its time. I am running on minimum brightness, since I'm indoors.
Tade0 4y ago
This monitor has high power consumption because it's geared towards professionals with its high brightnes and colour correctness. I checked the power brick and datasheet on my LG 27GP950-B and the ratings are 110W and 86W(HDR mode) respectively.
TacticalCoder 4y ago
> Does any of you have a recommendation for a screen that doesn't consume so much energy? Are you after a physical tiny screen doing 4K/retina or after something huge not retina? My LG 38" does 3840x1600. I'm using it since five years now and I much prefer to work on that than to work on my M1 Mac laptop's tiny retina screen. The 38" consumes less than 50W without being set in eco mode.
jansan 4y ago
My monitor (ASUS ProArt PA278QV), which calls itself "professional", has a power consumption of less than 20W. Even if his monitor has higher resoltion and better brightness, I am a bit surprised that the difference is that big.
bullen 4y ago
I use 19" 5:4 Eizo and 15" 4:3 Beetronics, they are 9-21W and 13.8W respectively.

christophilus 4y ago

Your comment made me check my own (LG Ultrafine 5k) and it’s 140W… That’s crazy. I love this monitor, but am interested in a high quality, lower power option if anyone knows of one.

mhb 4y ago
Crazy? At 20 cents/kWh, running it for 12 hours a day costs 34 cents per day or $123/year.
- hedora 4y ago
  My entire house idles at 500W. That includes two fridges, a freezer, a NAS, multiple internet uplinks, lighting, an always-on desktop, a half-dozen IoT gizmos and five wireless access points. The house averages 1-2 kW (including laundry, water heater, water treatment, hvac, dishwasher, oven, cooktop, etc). A 140W monitor would meaningfully increase these numbers.
mgraupner 4y ago
Did you really measure these 140 W or does the power brick says 140 W?
- glowingly 4y ago
  My LG monitor has a brick that goes to 65W, but the measured power consumption is ~20W at the wall. ~12W in short idle (screen turned off less than ~1 min ago). ~0W in deep sleep, which is where it spends most of its time. I am running on minimum brightness, since I'm indoors.

Tade0 4y ago

This monitor has high power consumption because it's geared towards professionals with its high brightnes and colour correctness. I checked the power brick and datasheet on my LG 27GP950-B and the ratings are 110W and 86W(HDR mode) respectively.

TacticalCoder 4y ago

> Does any of you have a recommendation for a screen that doesn't consume so much energy? Are you after a physical tiny screen doing 4K/retina or after something huge not retina? My LG 38" does 3840x1600. I'm using it since five years now and I much prefer to work on that than to work on my M1 Mac laptop's tiny retina screen. The 38" consumes less than 50W without being set in eco mode.

jansan 4y ago

My monitor (ASUS ProArt PA278QV), which calls itself "professional", has a power consumption of less than 20W. Even if his monitor has higher resoltion and better brightness, I am a bit surprised that the difference is that big.

bullen 4y ago

I use 19" 5:4 Eizo and 15" 4:3 Beetronics, they are 9-21W and 13.8W respectively.