#Intel power gadget mac old version software

Besides the documentation and the logging utility, the Intel Power Gadget directory newly created in your Applications directory will also include an uninstaller tool that completely removes the software from your system. However, the installation process resumes to merely following on-screen instructions. In addition, the software package includes a small application that enables the user to visualize the information.

#Intel power gadget mac old version drivers

Intel Power Gadget comes with an installer package that deploys the libraries and drivers necessary to both track and evaluate the CPU performance.

Software solution that includes all you need to measure the performance of your Intel CPU The Intel vetted app works with 2nd Generation to 6th Generation Intel Core processors, and keep in mind that you cannot use it to monitor Intel Atom processors. The API is otherwise unlikely to be of interest to Mozilla developers.Intel Power Gadget is a macOS application that can help users get real-time information about the performance of Intel processors without having to depend on third party equipment and instruments. Unfortunately, the Gecko profiler takes 1000 samples per second on desktop and is CPU intensive and so is likely to skew the RAPL estimates significantly, so the API integration was removed.

#Intel power gadget mac old version windows

At one point the Gecko Profiler used this API on Windows to implement experimental package power estimates. Version 3.0 (available on Mac and Windows, but not on Linux) also exposes an API from which the same measurements can be extracted programmatically. (An energia dashboard can be seen here please note that the data has not been updated since early 2014.) This feature has been used in energia, Roberto Vitillo's tool for systematically measuring differential power usage between different browsers. Intel Power Gadget can also log these results to a file. Specificially, the temperature is a proxy measurement that is affected by processor power consumption, rather than one that affects it, which makes it even less useful than most proxy measurements. This is interesting, but again not useful for power profiling purposes. Temperature: Shows the package temperature.These measurements aren't particularly useful for power profiling purposes. Frequency: Shows operating frequency measurements for the cores ('IA') and the GPU ('GT').These are reasonably useful for power profiling purposes, but Mozilla's rapl utility provides these along with GPU and RAM estimates, and in a command-line format that is often easier to use. Power: Shows power estimates for the package and the cores ('IA').

The three panes display the following information: The following screenshot (from the Mac version) demonstrates the available measurements. On Mac and Linux, tools/power/rapl is probably a better tool to use. The main strengths of this tool are (a) it works on Windows, unlike most other power-related tools, and (b) it shows this data in graph form, which is occasionally useful. It may make parts of this document easier to understand. Note: The power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.