That's possible, and I read that the higher tier 2020 13" has voltage ratings to use either the 61w or 87w adaptor - maybe that would have some impact, might be worth someone checking who has access to both.
I've tried both, doesn't charge or run any faster on idle. It will charge faster though if you're stressing the machine and pulling more power to feed both the CPU and battery.
Yeah. I was rounding rather generously!@Spectrum More like 8.12% faster single core and 6.8% faster multicore, no?
Single core performance for both is impressive, considering the i5 rivals a desktop i5-9600k. And the MBP i5 and i7 are about Apple's fastest quadcore chips, rivaling the last quadcore iMacs.
Value, though, is another question: Amazon and Best Buy recently had $200 off the 10th gen i5s but not the i7s. I can almost justify the i7 for $200 more, but when the i5 is $400 cheaper it's a no brainer. (I grabbed a used-like new one for another $90 off that price.) That might change if discounts come to the i7 too, but I decided not to wait for that . . .
The 8th gen is slower than the Air for short-burst single core tasks. Where it shines is in the multi-core test, as well as in extended usage.
Is that an i5 or i7?
If only it could sustain that advantage for more than a few milliseconds. I wonder how long (exactly) it can really run at that advantage.
On single-core tasks probably a long time. Single-core - even sustained - doesn’t heat up the CPU very much at all.
As @Mike Boreham said, it depends on the number of cores active. It is actually quite tricky to have only a single core active, since the CPU is often doing something else (even intermittently) in the background. One way to test is using Intel Power Gadget to monitor, and running a "Yes" test: Launch Terminal. Type: yes > /dev/null &
Thanks for the info. Notebookcheck.net usually gives the turboboost possible on each number of cores, but the page on the 1038NG7 only lists maximum single core clock (3.8Ghz).
Just about any of those files will work. I downloaded the first one on the list.
The new 9th gen and 10th gen are a bit of a mess to know what to expect in terms of max turbo because the actual possible turbo is much more dependent on thermal constraints than it was for earlier CPU generations. People don't call this "throttling" because it is always above base speed, but it clearly is: i.e. The CPU is unable to reach its theoretical peak due to a lack of cooling. In older generations 4th, 5th, 6th gen, this was rarely true, and the CPU could almost always attain its maximum design spec turbo.
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Thanks for the info and link!The new 9th gen and 10th gen are a bit of a mess to know what to expect in terms of max turbo because the actual possible turbo is much more dependent on thermal constraints than it was for earlier CPU generations. People don't call this "throttling" because it is always above base speed, but it clearly is: i.e. The CPU is unable to reach its theoretical peak due to a lack of cooling. In older generations 4th, 5th, 6th gen, this was rarely true, and the CPU could almost always attain its maximum design spec turbo.
Discontinued: Intel® Power Gadget
The Intel® Power Gadget project is no longer active.
But remember that IPG itself will use up cores/resources...
They always have. There's a "secret menu" of high end configs Apple stores carry. For example, the 2019 15 inch had a 2.4/32/560x/1tb or 2.4/32/v20/1tb and the 16 inch has 2.4/32/5500 8gb/2TB and now it seems they have a 13 2.3/32/2TB.
