Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect

Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by LoSboccacc on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:49AM (#18969632)

same, 2012 15" rMBP (gen0 with the screen persistence issue) that I keep around just because it's hard to replace the easiness of certain video editing suites. not going to buy another because all the newer model just go into deep throttling at the first hint of a heavy workload. they're pro only in price.

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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by stephen_g on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:30PM (#18970168)

If I recall correctly, wasn't that just a power management bug that was fixed a year ago?

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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by LoSboccacc on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:37PM (#18970249)

They fixed the excessive bugged throttling but significant throttling is still there https://cdn-macrumors-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/cdn.ma...

It's a direct result of their form factor.

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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by endorphone on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:20PM (#18970730)

>but significant throttling

Is an 8% drop really significant? Further all modern Intel processors aside from a few low clocked Xeons throttle. That's the whole point of the "turbo" speeds -- they utilize what they can within the thermal threshold.

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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by LoSboccacc on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:19PM (#18972022)

you still get the baseline performances; turbo extends that for workload that use less than full cores. this makes the cpu go below the baseline.

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