A little x-mas gift for you guys 
As there is no real way (I have knowledge of) to monitor the actual / turbo cpu frequency of the Xeons in classic Mac Pros I made two little scripts for displaying the actual cpu and turbo cpu frequency.
(The Intel Power Gadget tool does not work on our Xeon generation.)
It's the powermetrics cli tool what gives that information, I took 15 x 100ms samples and calculated the average for the actual load. Plus maxing 1 core out with the yes cli tool for triggering full (but not infinite) load.
That was a single Mac Pro 5,1 running a X5660 on Monterey
The scripts need the admin password for privileges of Powermetrics and Terminal access. Also they needed right-click-open for the 1st start as they are not signed. The script text is readable.
Edit: added CPU type reporting to the turbo script (don't wanted to add additional load for the actual frequency script)
Edit2:
Added a script for measuring the actual CPU Frequency working on Apple Silicon. Measuring forcing a turbo load I cannot do as I have no Silicon Mac available. Everyone is welcome to add this.
As there is no real way (I have knowledge of) to monitor the actual / turbo cpu frequency of the Xeons in classic Mac Pros I made two little scripts for displaying the actual cpu and turbo cpu frequency.
(The Intel Power Gadget tool does not work on our Xeon generation.)
It's the powermetrics cli tool what gives that information, I took 15 x 100ms samples and calculated the average for the actual load. Plus maxing 1 core out with the yes cli tool for triggering full (but not infinite) load.
That was a single Mac Pro 5,1 running a X5660 on Monterey
The scripts need the admin password for privileges of Powermetrics and Terminal access. Also they needed right-click-open for the 1st start as they are not signed. The script text is readable.
Edit: added CPU type reporting to the turbo script (don't wanted to add additional load for the actual frequency script)
Edit2:
Added a script for measuring the actual CPU Frequency working on Apple Silicon. Measuring forcing a turbo load I cannot do as I have no Silicon Mac available. Everyone is welcome to add this.
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