USING A SUPPLEMENTAL POWER SOURCE TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY PERFORMANCE BOOSTS IN COMPUTING DEVICES

摘要

A supplemental power source may be used to provide temporary performance boosts in a computing device by providing additional power to supplement a primary power source. The supplemental power can be used, for example, to run components of a computer system (e.g., a CPU, GPU, memory, SSD, FPGA, and/or ASIC) at higher power to improve performance. In some embodiments, the supplemental power manager may invoke supplemental power from the supplemental power source whenever it determines that an application on the computing device can benefit from additional power and the operating power that is being supplied by the primary power source is at its maximum level. In some embodiments, a determination may be made that an application can benefit from additional power if the application is principally limited by the performance of a particular hardware component and additional power could improve the performance of that hardware component.