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> Perhaps ~4 efficiency cores is simply just enough for the average MBP user's standard compute? I believe that’s the case. Most times, the performance cores o
by thimabi 2y ago
> Perhaps ~4 efficiency cores is simply just enough for the average MBP user's standard compute?
I believe that’s the case. Most times, the performance cores on my M3 Pro laptop remain idle.
What I don’t understand is why battery life isn’t more like that of the MacBook Airs when not using the full power of the SOC. Maybe that’s the downside of having a better display.
- School-Cotton 2y ago> Most times, the performance cores on my M3 Pro laptop remain idle. Curious how you're measuring this. Can you see it in Activity Monitor? > Maybe that’s the downside of having a better display. Yes I think so. Display is a huge fraction of power consumption in typical light (browsing/word processing/email) desktop workloads.
- thimabi 2y ago> Curious how you're measuring this. Can you see it in Activity Monitor? I use an open source app called Stats [1]. It provides a really good overview of the system on the menu bar, and it comes with many customization options. [1]: https://github.com/exelban/stats https://github.com/exelban/stats
- School-Cotton 2y agoCool, thanks for the tip!
- netruk44 2y ago> Curious how you're measuring this. Can you see it in Activity Monitor? Yes, processor history in the activity monitor marks out specific cores as Performance and Efficiency. Example: https://i.redd.it/f87yv7eoqyh91.jpg https://i.redd.it/f87yv7eoqyh91.jpg
- School-Cotton 2y agoWow, I didn't even realize you could double-click the CPU graph on the main screen to open that view.