https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57281
--- Comment #9 from Michel Dänzer michel@daenzer.net 2013-05-01 07:49:06 --- (In reply to comment #8)
According to powertop it saves about 0.5W or a little bit more.
That's just from not enabling backing store? Not bad, considering backing store is basically useless with a composited desktop and probably hurts performance. :)
I suspect powering off the discrete GPU could save a lot more than that though.