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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by TillE on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:00AM (#38080836)
> maybe it's thermal throttling

The GPU is a very large fraction of the thermal output these SoCs are engineered to handle, so there really shouldn't be any throttling if you're only loading the CPU.

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by jeffybefffy519 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:08AM (#38080892)
Its the same package tho, so if the GPU gets hot then the CPU thermal throttles as well.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by pier25 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:14AM (#38080924)
Yeah but it's not very often that you will push both CPU and GPU to the max.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by squeaky-clean on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:51PM (#38087774)
Geekbench does though.
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