Energy Analysis
Use Intel® SoC Watch and
Intel® VTune™
to collect and analyze power and energy consumption metrics. You can collect data on Windows, Linux, or Android systems. Use this data to identify system behaviors that waste energy.
Profiler
Get Snapshot through
Intel® VTune™
Profiler
Intel® VTune™
Profiler
In the snapshot view, you can observe package power consumption over time when you run any analysis type in
Intel® VTune™
. This option is available when you run
Profiler
VTune
on Windows, Linux, or Android systems.
Profiler
- On theVTunewelcome screen, clickProfilerConfigure Analysis.
- In theHOWpane, select an analysis type. In this example, we use the Hotspots analysis.
- Customize a copy of the analysis. Click this icon:
- Select options as necessary.
- At the bottom of the analysis type, checkAnalyze power usage.
- ClickStart(
) to run the analysis.
When the analysis completes,
VTune
displays package power usage information (collected by Intel® SoC Watch) in the Platform tab.
Profiler

Track package power usage to see if the CPU is likely to enter a throttling phase. If that happens, you can
run a throttling analysis to explore possible causes.
For detailed information about using Intel SoC Watch, see the
Energy Analysis User Guide.