Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for managing power consumption of a graphics processing system. Specifically, the method adaptively adjusts the performance level of the graphics processing system based on scene information in each frame. A scene-aware power manager is configured to receive scene information and adaptively control performance of the GPU according to the received scene information. The power manager compares the early indicators of the current frame with the early indicators of a previous frame to determine a level of scene change and to assign a set of initial performance settings based on the determined level of scene change.