Intel(R) Power Gadget
Intel Power Gadget is a monitoring and profiling utility from Intel that displays real-time power consumption, temperature, frequency, and other hardware metrics for Intel processors on Mac and Windows systems. It is used by software engineers, hardware researchers, and performance-tuning specialists to measure the power draw of applications and the system during benchmarking and development. The macOS version provides detailed CPU telemetry through a graphical interface and logging capabilities for power analysis over time.
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1 suggestionIntel Power Gadget has been discontinued by Intel and is no longer maintained or supported. The app will not work at all on modern Macs running Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 or newer) because it was specifically designed to monitor Intel processors — the hardware it profiles no longer exists in Apple's product line. Additionally, with Rosetta 2 being removed from macOS 28 in September 2028, even Intel-Mac users still running the app under emulation will find it stops launching on that release. If you need to measure power consumption and thermal behavior on an Apple Silicon Mac, consider using Xcode's Energy Impact profiling tools (built into Instruments), Activity Monitor's Energy tab, or third-party solutions like Mikrolern's PowerMonitor or Patterned's iStatistica, all of which provide native Apple Silicon support and work with modern macOS releases.
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