![]() All three of these routers are Tri-Band routers with the only difference being in the Active Antennas the Nighthawk X8 has introduced.įor the most part, when people start using these routers into their network, they really dont think about the power usage. We measured the Nighthawk X8 at 56% higher than its cousin the Netgear R8000 and ASUS RT-AC3200 router. We then measured the power draw from each router at the wall with our P3 International P4400 Kill-A-Watt electric usage monitor.īenchmark Results: It is quite apparent that the Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 is very power hungry under idle conditions. ![]() To measure idle usage, we reset each wireless router to the default settings and plugged them with no devices connected to them. Power consumption by your homes electronic devices continues to be a very important issue so we have made an attempt to present some simple power consumption tests on the various routers that we had.
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