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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by matheusmoreira on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:57AM (#28999258)
> My two year old intel laptop cpu (i7-9750H) also outperforms the xeon's he's comparing against by almost 40%.

Yeah, but for how long? My laptop has a respectable CPU as well but any kind of sustained load would melt it down if it didn't automatically throttle itself back to 2 GHz and below after like 5 seconds.

These M1 chips somehow manage to have great performance while also keeping temperatures and power draw low. I think this will change everything forever.

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by intpx on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:47AM (#29000317)
> Any kind of sustained load would melt it down if it didn't automatically throttle itself back to 2 GHz and below after like 5 seconds

Bingo

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by fomine3 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:04AM (#29010351)
It depends on how the laptop designed to cool it.
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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by matheusmoreira on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:55AM (#29011989)
Cooling laptops just isn't going to happen. I've never had one with a thermal management system that didn't suck. My current laptop has 3 noisy ridiculously loud fans and it can't cool the processor enough to maintain a sustained load at maximum speed. All I have to do to watch it nearly melt itself down at 93 °C is run make all in some project's directory.
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