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How much power does Visual Look Up use?
Using powermetrics and log entries, a single image was processed on an M4 Pro, with content analysis and object recognition and look-up. How much power and energy did that use?
Look in the log, and Visual Look Up (VLU) on an Apple silicon Mac apparently involves a great deal of work, in both CPU cores and the neural engine (ANE). Highest power was recorded between samples 10-25, corresponding to 1.0-2.5 seconds elapsed since the start of measurements, and most events identified in the log. Posted in Macs, Technology and tagged ANE, Apple silicon, Energy, log, M4, power, powermetrics, Visual Look Up.
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