The New Raspberry Pi 400 Beats Its Predecessor in Energetic Efficiency
Comparing the performance of Raspberry Pi 400 vs. model 4B by monitoring the CPU temperature in real time
This practical demonstration is based on the article part 4: Monitoring Raspberry Pi 4 performance in real time, the last of the mini-book titled Hands on Development with Raspberry Pi 4. This serie covers the Raspberry Pi setup (part 1), installing Docker and Docker Compose (part 2), deploying Theia IDE using Docker (part 3) and monitoring RPi sytem metrics with the TICK stack (part 4 mentioned above).
The goal of this article is to describe a quick hands on exercise to acquire the insight of how much less heating the Raspberry Pi 400 is compared to its predecessor, the RPi4 model B. And for that we will use all what we learn in the four articles of the mentioned serie.
Quick overview of the Raspberry Pi 400
The new model of Raspberry Pi was born from the fusion between Raspberry Pi keyboard and the most recent model 4B of this popular board. What the Raspberry Pi Foundation has done is to put a Raspberry Pi 4 inside the casing of the Pi keyboard.
From outside it seems just a keyboard, except when you look at the back side…
