{"id":99094,"date":"2026-09-01T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=99094"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:49:37","slug":"siliconscope-improves-upon-macos-activity-monitor-with-apple-silicon-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/99094-siliconscope-improves-upon-macos-activity-monitor-with-apple-silicon-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"SiliconScope Improves Upon macOS Activity Monitor With Apple Silicon Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curiosity gets the best of me, especially when I&#8217;m pushing my Mac to its limits. How much RAM is being used? Is memory bandwidth becoming a bottleneck during my latest Premiere Pro render? Which process is consuming the most CPU?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions like these can be answered \u2014 at least in part \u2014 by Activity Monitor, which comes with every Mac. But while Activity Monitor is an excellent troubleshooting tool, it doesn&#8217;t expose everything that&#8217;s happening inside an Apple Silicon chip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s where <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconscope.calidalab.ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SiliconScope<\/a> comes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"952\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem.jpg 680w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem-86x120.jpg 86w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem-231x323.jpg 231w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem-136x190.jpg 136w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem-86x120@2x.jpg 172w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem-231x323@2x.jpg 462w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_menuItem-136x190@2x.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1810\" height=\"1888\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats.jpg 1810w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-115x120.jpg 115w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-284x296.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-182x190.jpg 182w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-1473x1536.jpg 1473w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-115x120@2x.jpg 230w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-284x296@2x.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Stats-182x190@2x.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1810px) 100vw, 1810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SiliconScope lives in your Mac&#8217;s menu bar, though it can also be displayed as a standalone dashboard. Like Activity Monitor, it tracks CPU, memory, storage, network, and GPU utilization. But it goes much further, providing insight into unified memory bandwidth, battery health, sensor temperatures, AI workloads, and usage of both the Media Engine and Apple Neural Engine (ANE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1484\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings.jpg 800w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings-65x120.jpg 65w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings-174x323.jpg 174w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings-102x190.jpg 102w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings-65x120@2x.jpg 130w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings-174x323@2x.jpg 348w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_Settings-102x190@2x.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Media Engine is dedicated hardware built into Apple Silicon for encoding and decoding video, while the Apple Neural Engine accelerates machine learning and AI tasks. Offloading these jobs to specialized hardware allows them to run faster while consuming less power than if the CPU handled them alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SiliconScope is compact and efficient, both in terms of its CPU and memory footprint and its thoughtfully designed interface. Information is neatly categorized, with color coding and subtle dividers that make it easy to find what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The combined menu bar view lets you monitor your Mac&#8217;s workload at a glance. Live graphs and numerical readouts show CPU, GPU, ANE, Media Engine, memory, and memory bandwidth utilization, along with your top three running processes. Power consumption is broken down by GPU, ANE, Media Engine, and SoC (System on a Chip), providing a much more granular view of what&#8217;s happening inside your Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"822\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin.jpg 675w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin-99x120.jpg 99w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin-265x323.jpg 265w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin-156x190.jpg 156w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin-99x120@2x.jpg 198w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin-265x323@2x.jpg 530w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SiliconScope_CPU_pin-156x190@2x.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standalone dashboard takes advantage of the additional screen space to display even more information. Better yet, individual monitoring panels can be pinned to your menu bar. If you only care about CPU utilization, for example, simply pin that panel and it becomes its own dedicated menu bar item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SiliconScope includes two features that I haven&#8217;t seen in other Mac monitoring utilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is performance capture. SiliconScope can record your Mac&#8217;s performance metrics in real time and replay them later for analysis. That makes it especially useful for developers, power users, and anyone trying to troubleshoot intermittent performance problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1810\" height=\"1888\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet.jpg 1810w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-115x120.jpg 115w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-284x296.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-182x190.jpg 182w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-1473x1536.jpg 1473w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-115x120@2x.jpg 230w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-284x296@2x.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SilcionScope_fleet-182x190@2x.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1810px) 100vw, 1810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second is fleet monitoring. Install SiliconScope on multiple Macs \u2014 or even Linux systems \u2014 and you can monitor each machine&#8217;s performance from a single dashboard. I can easily see this being useful for developers managing multiple systems or organizations running Mac server farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconscope.calidalab.ai\">SiliconScope<\/a> is free, open source, and runs on macOS 14 or later. More importantly, it&#8217;s designed specifically for Apple Silicon, exposing performance data that simply isn&#8217;t available in many other monitoring utilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My only real criticism is that the default type size is a bit too small for my eyes. Fortunately, that&#8217;s easily fixed by increasing the font size in the preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SiliconScope certainly satisfied my curiosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SiliconScope is a compact and free macOS menu bar utility that provides more insight into your M-Series Mac&#8217;s 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