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Intel deserves a lot of blame for the last few x86 MacBooks too. The TDPs on those i9s are completely imaginary. Out to lunch. If one were to, say, design a coo
by Miraste 3y ago
Intel deserves a lot of blame for the last few x86 MacBooks too. The TDPs on those i9s are completely imaginary. Out to lunch. If one were to, say, design a cooling system based on the specs and then receive a production sample that ran twice as hot at half the speed, one would have to do things like downclock it below a gigahertz to avoid burning the user's hands off. That entire generation of Intel chips was a trash fire that demanded a whole car radiator to stay cool just to provide two hours of battery life if you were lucky.
- jeroenhd 3y agoIntel's cooling specs certainly aren't great, but Apple did mess with the power profiles a LOT. People also often misread the TDP numbers (it's for describing the thermal load of a certain performance threshold, NOT the maximum power output of the chip) and that doesn't help.. I completely agree that Intel's chips were consuming way more power than they had any right to, but Apple knew that when they were designing their computers, and they also had complete control over the performance characteristics, so they could've compensated (or picked more appropriate chips). AMD's Ryzen was the proof that Intel's designs were flawed. I suspect that AMD's impressive Ryzen performance spooked Intel and they responded by making their existing designs faster by just pumping more power through them.