Intel Power Gadget

Intel Power Gadget is a software-based power usage monitoring tool enabled for Intel® Core™ processors (from 2nd Generation up to 10th Generation Intel® Core™ processors). Intel® Atom™ processors are not supported. It is supported on Windows* and macOS* and includes an application, driver, and libraries to monitor and estimate real-time processor package power information in watts using the energy counters in the processor.

Traditional methods to estimate power/energy usage of the processor has always been a cumbersome task that included special-purpose tools or instrumentation on the platform along with third-party equipment. The motivation for the tool was to assist end-users, ISV’s, OEM’s, developers, and others interested in a more precise estimation of power from a software level without any H/W instrumentation.

Traditional methods to estimate power/energy usage of the processor has always been a cumbersome task that included special-purpose tools or instrumentation on the platform along with third-party equipment. The motivation for Intel Power Gadget was to assist end-users, ISV’s, OEM’s, developers, and others interested in a more precise estimation of power from a software level without any H/W instrumentation.

Intel Power Gadget for Windows PC consists of the following components. Set of driver and libraries which access and post-process the processor energy counter to calculate the power usage in Watts, temperate in Celsius, and frequency in GHz (default install directory will be ~\Program Files\Intel\Power Gadget 3.5). A command-line version of the tool (PowerLog3.0.exe) is also included

Graphs will not appear if your processor does not have the appropriate hardware counters. Discrete graphics cards are not supported and GPU graphs will not appear unless Intel graphics are in use. Provides processor power (Watts), temperature (Celsius), and frequency (MHz) in real-time via graph displayed in the GUI.

Also Available: Download Intel Power Gadget for Mac