I think a lot of devs using MacBook Pros are probably struggling with their laptops being sluggish without realizing what the real problem is. The cause is the

I think a lot of devs using MacBook Pros are probably struggling with their laptops being sluggish without realizing what the real problem is. The cause is the VRM overheating for which there is no temperature sensor information available. You will only see a bunch of your processes jumping up to 100%+, and clock speeds being reduced to < 1GHz. Here are some tips to diagnose: sudo watch -d -t -n1 thermal levels If CPU or GPU > 100 then you are being throttled. You can observe graphs of wattage, frequency, temp in Intel Power Gadget to confirm. sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |grep -i "CPU die temperature" If you CPU temperature is < 100C, then its not CPU throttling, its the VRM overheating.