4. Hardware components are the real energy consumers.
Software including the OS and applications generate the workloadof computing,
I/O access, encoding/decoding, and other hardware operations.
The workis transformedinto a set of circuit activities on the corresponding
hardware components, and the circuit activities consume energy.
8. GPU
It is a processor dedicated solely to graphics
processing operations or “floating point”
calculations. One of the main functions of
the GPU is to lighten the load on the CPU
(Central Processing Unit), especially when
running graphics intensive applications like
hi-res games or 3D graphics apps.
12. Ram
RAM is what your device uses when it's
doing something.
For example, when you're editing a
photo both the photo and the app you're
using to edit it are in the device's RAM
when you finish editing the photo is then
saved to your device's storage so it can't
get lost.