Energy consumption breakdown of a modern mobile platform under various workloads

Advancements in today's mobile computing systems are mainly constrained by the high power dissipation of integrated circuits. Enhancing the energy efficiency of these systems has become a pressing challenge due to their dependency on batteries as the main power source. In this paper, we present a component-wise energy consumption breakdown of a modern platform under a variety of applications and benchmarks. This is an essential step in directing future research towards the power-hungry components and in providing a better understanding of the system behavior. Our results demonstrate a substantial variation in the energy contribution of various components as well as the total system energy depending on the nature of the workload.