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Macs are notorious for thermal throttling, partly due to inadequate cooling and party a policy to only turn on the fan once it's already throttling. This hasn't
by ben-schaaf 3y ago
Macs are notorious for thermal throttling, partly due to inadequate cooling and party a policy to only turn on the fan once it's already throttling. This hasn't changed with Apple Silicon.
- sliken 3y agoEvery review I've seen for the apple silicon macs show they do quite well, especially compared to similar PC laptops. So not zero impact, but MUCH better than the competition. I'm not basing this on impressions, but the published performance metrics show performance over time as well as performance on wall power vs performance on battery.
- TexanFeller 3y agoPreviously true on Intel MBPs. M* chip MBPs hardly ever throttle in any significant way.
- acdha 3y ago> This hasn't changed with Apple Silicon. The first part of your comment is correct. This part is not true for any benchmark I’ve seen - it’s possible to detect thermal throttling on the Air models but it requires uncommonly heavy workloads and takes much longer to kick in than it did with the Intel processors. In practice, a software developer who isn’t running LLMs locally will likely never hear the fan on their MacBook Pro or experience throttling on an Air.