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Limiting Handbrake threads to prevent throttling on M2 MacBook Air
- cl0ckt0wer 4y agoAt the risk of maybe burning something, you can thermally couple the heatsink to the chassis for better performance. LTT published a YouTube video a while back.
- anonomousename 4y agoIt ends up sending a lot of heat into the battery though, so probably isn’t the smartest idea unless you have some kind of external active cooling.
- gloryjulio 4y agoJust get a pro at this point. Killing the battery is not worth it
- abigail95 4y agoWhile profiling my desktop CPU, I can set performance targets to trade off power, temp, frequency across a selection of cores. Can we do this with the M2? Is the technology here yet? To set a target of 85 instead of 105 degrees?
- geerlingguy 4y agoCasually glancing around, it doesn't seem like there are any easily accessible tools to do so on the M-series chips. The Intel chips in older Macs were a little more tunable since they were the same as the chips over on the Windows side.
- Saris 4y agoI'm a little surprised the encode performance is ~10fps on x264. I don't know that much about the apple CPUs but I do remember a lot of news about how fast they were for media related tasks.
- geerlingguy 4y agoThis was 4K with high presets, it's a lot faster when not throttling (18-20 fps), and well above real time when compressing 1080p.
- Saris 4y agoWell it is a fanless laptop, I have to keep that in mind for comparisons haha. I used the same preset on my R7 3700x which is not the fastest CPU by any means, and managed around 70fps. But I imagine power draw is a lot more than ~3x higher.