Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for inter-RAT resource switching based on power consumption using communications systems operating according to, for example, new radio (NR) technologies. For example, a method may generally include signaling at least one power consumption metric of the UE for communicating in at least first and second radio access technologies (RAT) resources, and taking action to switch to communicate via the first RAT resource, the second RAT resource, or both, based on the at least one power consumption metric.