Terminal command for cpu type

[Certificate of Excellence]

What’s is the osx terminal command to see the cpu type ie: 7440 7045 etc. ? For the life of me I cannot recall what it is.

I recall the flood gap TFF site had it listed but its no longer there & WBM currently thinks I’m a spamming bot and has blocked my access LOL

 

[eastone]

What’s is the osx terminal command to see the cpu type ie: 7440 7045 etc. ? For the life of me I cannot recall what it is.

I recall the flood gap TFF site had it listed but its no longer there & WBM currently thinks I’m a spamming bot and has blocked my access LOL

Try "machine" command.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Try "machine" command.

Just tried this on an i5 machine and it reported back:

i486

Edit: this command will provide the full information.

sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string

Which in my case generated:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Try "machine" command.

That's the ticket - thanks. Forgetting this was the first old man moment I've had in a while.

Just tried this on an i5 machine and it reported back:



Edit: this command will provide the full information.

sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string

Which in my case generated:

I've used this in the past on my newer Intel and Apple Silicon Macs however it errors out with my PowerPC macs. The closest I could get was akin to Linux Neofetch: [ system_profiler SPHardwareDataType ] which certainly gives lots of great system info but in that info does not include the cpu build#.

Now, I just need to not forget [ Machine ] again LOL. Thank you both.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Forgetting this was the first old man moment I've had in a while.

You're not alone with those moments, rest assured.

I've used this in the past on my newer Intel and Apple Silicon Macs however it errors out with my PowerPC macs.

Ah, I didn't realise this.

Thank you both.

You're welcome.

 

[barracuda156]

36-246% hostinfo | grep type | sed 's/Processor type\: //'
ppc970 (PowerPC 970)

 

[ervus]

system_profiler | grep CPU

ioreg -l | grep cpu-version