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1096bimu

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Why isn't there a tool to show chip power level in watts? With so many fancy monitor this sensei that, asking for $20 each, none of them can show processor power level? Even though the information is just built-in Mac OS and you can get it from the terminal?

I know these two extremely geeky tools that supposedly do it the first one M1mon you can only run from the terminal, I can't get it to work not on my M2. The other is some python script you can't run unless you've downloaded and installed this 5GB developer tool kit which is just ridiculous. And also why Python the slowest language known to man? I know there's not much going on so performance won't matter but it probably does in this case since the power information given by the system is so precise running a python script constantly could slightly increase power draw. It's such a simple program just quit being lazy and compile a proper binary?
 

Slartibart

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well, I personally doubt that python is slow for this particular application, but anyway: what’s wrong using system_profileror ioreg in the terminal? Or viewing the energy consumption in the Activity Monitor?

And just for the protocol: there is no way to measure this accurately by software but to approximate it.
 

1096bimu

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Istat Menus. Stats, both can show power draw.
No it doesn't
well, I personally doubt that python is slow for this particular application, but anyway: what’s wrong using system_profileror ioreg in the terminal? Or viewing the energy consumption in the Activity Monitor?

And just for the protocol: there is no way to measure this accurately by software but to approximate it.
because it's not graphical, there's no graph
activity monitor doesn't give you watts
Mx power gadget is a clone of Intel Power Gadget: https://www.seense.com/menubarstats/mxpg/. I think it's pretty good!
Great! this is exactly what I was looking for, so sad it's been buried by all the ****** paid apps that show you hundreds of useless stats, with no actually useful numbers.
 
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