What software do you use to measure laptop's (or cpu or gpu alone) energy consumption?

[jdjinn]

Hi,

I would like to test my laptop (all together and CPU and GPU alone) and see if it's power consumption while idle and under gaming is  normal and stable. 

I watch many youtubers showing a clear graphic very easy to read showing it. What software do they use and how do they convert to such easy readable graphic?

 

For example GamersNexus's video about the 3090 Ti.

 

 

Source of the screenshot: (EVGA RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Review & Benchmarks: Power, Thermals, & Overclocking - YouTube)

I was told HWinfo64 would help, but I don't find how.

Any advice / tutorial? 

 

[Kilrah]

HwInfo can show it live, and has the ability to log to a file. They'd then take that log file and massage it in a spreadsheet program or similar to extract the desired columns and graph them. 

[jdjinn]

Hi.

Thanks for the information. I found a program called "GenericLogViewer" on HwInfo website (Add-ons | HWiNFO). I wonder if it is a good or among the best options for a reliable presentation of the log file. 

Has anyone tried it or any other program? 

[Mark Kaine]

17 hours ago, jdjinn said:

GenericLogViewer

I use it sometimes, i love it, but it obviously looks far less fancier than what GN uses - i suppose they wrote the program themselves cause it has a very distinctive "GN look".

 

 

[jdjinn]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

I use it sometimes, i love it, but it obviously looks far less fancier than what GN uses - i suppose they wrote the program themselves cause it has a very distinctive "GN look".

 

 

I agree the one used by GN looks amazing. 

I'll try GenericLogViewer. I hope it will give me a better glimpse in the information I'm looking for.