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Measuring the actual power draw of Teams, Meet, Discord, Slack and Zoom

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Measuring the actual power draw of Teams, Meet, Discord, Slack and Zoom

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Used hardware energy counters (CPU RAPL + GPU NVML) with WattSeal for per-process attribution rather than CPU% proxies. The Google Meet result was unexpected enough that we re-ran it in multiple browsers to make sure it wasn't a Firefox artifact.

Here are the results: https://wattseal.com/blog/power-benchmarks/video-call-power-comparison/#results

Raw data and benchmark procedures: https://github.com/Daminoup88/WattSeal-benchmark