Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by rayiner on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:03PM (#25066309)

I have the 16” MacBook Pro. It doesn’t throttle and will happily run at max boost for tens of minutes.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by adrianN on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:44AM (#25067473)

Mine doesn't throttle when the ambient temperature is below 21°C, but throttles almost immediately if the ambient temperature is above 24°C.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by Tepix on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:23AM (#25068025)

The MBP16 has a problem with overheating VRMs during prolonged high load. A hack with thermal pads helps:

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by sliken on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:03AM (#25067903)

Which one? I have the i9 flavor and it sounds like it's taking off if I run a video conf with zoom or Microsoft teams.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by numpad0 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:49AM (#25071692)

Throttling refers to throttling down. Choking up. Going up is boosting.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by perfmode on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:21PM (#25066398)

mine throttles to 30% within a minute of ffmpeg

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