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Re:Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy w... by alisonkisk on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:11AM (#27246687)
It's not a bad design choice, it's a driver bug, since 2017.

The power/heat is due unnecessary clocking up when it isn't even doing any work. The non-dGPU version does better at the same task.

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Re:Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy w... by xlii on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:59AM (#27247745)
I’m quite sure that’s not a driver bug. Reason for that is that Apple is well aware of the issue and that’s why it’s fixed in MBPs with 5600M.

If that would be solely driver bug it would be patched by now (and that’s an issue since 2019, so not exactly new).

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