SiliconScope

About

SiliconScope is a sudoless macOS monitor for Apple Silicon that tracks the signals Activity Monitor and btop don't show, including Neural Engine (ANE) activity, Media Engine throughput, and unified-memory bandwidth split across CPU, GPU, Media, and ANE. It offers a menu-bar cockpit with live bars and trend dropdowns, plus a full dashboard. For local AI workloads, it gives a live verdict on whether your LLM is bandwidth-bound or compute-bound, along with a one-click tokens/sec and tokens-per-watt benchmark. Individual metrics such as CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, and battery can each be pinned to their own menu-bar item.

New in 4.0, SiliconScope's Fleet feature lets you monitor other machines in the same dashboard. Headless Macs get the full view, including the Neural Engine, while Linux/NVIDIA machines get a GPU-centric view showing VRAM holders and loaded Ollama models. Agents connect over an encrypted, paired connection and install with a single line.

SiliconScope is open source (MIT), requires macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon, and runs 100% offline with no telemetry or analytics. It is Developer-ID signed, Apple-notarized, self-updating, and can be installed via Homebrew with `brew install --cask siliconscope`.