If it is on, it will still recharge in the dock, but at around half the rate.
The takeaway? The Switch can recharge fairly quickly, but only if it’s not turned on. Meanwhile, adding the joy-cons to the mix to recharge as well brings the total power consumption up to 12.1W. This is nearly twice the amount of leftover power the Switch had available to charge its battery with when it was docked and turned on. One thing to keep in mind here is that if we subtract out the 11W from earlier, we only end up with 4.7W left to charge the Switch’s battery.įinally, if we turn the console off and just let it charge, we find that the Switch + dock draws 9.8W. Throwing on the partially discharged joy-cons bumps that up a bit further to 16.5W, coming fairly close to the official 18W limit of the dock. Letting the Switch discharge and loading up Zelda again finds that power consumption has (unsurprisingly) increased, to 15.7W. And while I didn’t pull noise measurements on the Switch, while the console’s fan was active, it was holding at a fairly low speed, judging from the softness of the sound.
The dock itself is consuming a bit of this energy to power its DisplayPort to HDMI converter, but it’s safe to assume that virtually all of that power is going to the Switch itself. With the Switch charged and running Zelda in its docked configuration, it’s drawing on average 11 Watts of power. The following values are all averages over 2 minutes. All of this is measured by letting the Switch load from a save in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which according to Nintendo’s battery life estimates, is likely the most power-intensive of the launch games. This is broken down to a fully charged Switch – so that we can infer just how much power the Switch system (sans display) is drawing to run – and then again with a Switch under 20% battery capacity so that it needs to charge as well. To start things off, I wanted to see how much power the Switch drew while docked.
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