I took some power measurements:
- powered off, 0.5w
- powered on, one screen active, 18.5w
- powered on, both screens active, 22.5w
There is a small recessed button on the underside of the player 2 (white buttons) side that allows you to turn off that screen if you’re not playing with a friend, which is a nice touch!
It definitely seems to run the hardware at full tilt all the time, it quickly boots up to a full 18.5w. I couldn’t detect any power idle modes in the menus, and launching a game didn’t seem to budge the power consumption much.
- CPU Quad-core Cortex-A7 1.2GHz
- GPU Mali400MP2 @ 600MHz
- RAM DDR3/1866 2GB
- MicroSD 512MB (boot, OS)
These are Allwinner boards, looking at the official specs it has to be the Allwinner A33, that’s the only quad-core A7 with Mali GPU?
This box has two LED strips for the marquee plus the screens, so probably 4w per screen, 1w for both power strips.. means the Pandora’s Box 6 draws a surprising 9.5 watts all by itself. No wonder it wants a heatsink and active fan.