Measuring power consumption of hardware in windows

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and not found an API or library that allows me to schedule a desktop application that allows me to observe the power consumption in kw / h of my computer window

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I took several months investigating some libraries and Apis allow me to schedule a desktop application that will allow me to see the energetic consumption in real time on my computer

Posted 14-Sep-16 8:24am

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Updated 14-Sep-16 9:16am

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Maciej Los 14-Sep-16 14:53pm

I'm afraid such of libraries/Apis are not available. You'll need extra devices to start measurement. Check Tom's Hardware article: The Math Behind GPU Power Consumption And PSUs

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2016-09-14T08:40:00

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Cannot be done. There is no API for power consumption that I know of. I don't know of any hardware support for it.

The only power consumption stats I can get on my machine are supplied by the UPS my machine is attached to but that only covers the entire machine, not individual applications.

Posted 14-Sep-16 8:40am

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Maciej Los 14-Sep-16 15:19pm

5ed!
I hope i added bit more details in my answer.

CPallini 14-Sep-16 15:51pm

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Maciej Los · Answer 2 · 2016-09-14T09:16:00

I've done some researches..

I'm afraid such of libraries/Apis are not available. You'll need extra devices to start measurement. Check Tom's Hardware article: The Math Behind GPU Power Consumption And PSUs[^]

On the other hand, i believe that you won't be able to definitely state which application consumes what portion of power. Note, that each OS run several services/processes in a background (for example: windows update). So, you can calculate power consumption for pc only, but such of calculator needs several input parameters. See: Power Supply Calculator - The most accurate PC wattage calculator[^]