Total Power different between mactop and iStat Menus

[edrozenberg]

It's probably not a bug but a difference in definition. mactop appears to consider total power to mean cpu + gpu, whereas iStat Menus appears to measure total system power (cpu + gpu + anything else).

Screenshot showing iStat Menus total power ~ 8 Watts vs. mactop showing total power .5 Watts (Mac mini M4 Pro):

[wyek1n]

This problem also exists in memory usage. Can it be customized?

[angristan]

I also noticed this, during a chat with a LLM on Ollama, mactop will report 30W usage vs 80W by istat menus, which seems more correct considering it's a M4 Max