yep, have you? Pay particular attention to what he says around 5:00 minutes on about this not reflecting itself in short term benchmark tests, but it is more designed to impact when you are doing long-term graphic intensive tasks like rendering 8k videos. so to summarize, he said it will not impact benchmarks, virtually at all, but will help for long flat out intensive sessions. I think I paraphrased him adequately
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How to Use High Power Mode on 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro
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I do feel like the resale prices for the 2019 Mac Pro will remain pretty good for a while. Im thinking a lot of professionals will be staying in X86 land for a while yet.
isn't the answer essentially yes? If you feel more comfortable turning the settings on to maximize cooling for long term video renderings of 8k (as the feature explains), then, turn it on for sustained fan speed, but otherwise the fans come on when they need to come on and turn off when they are not needed. Also there is some user discretion here because it also says it prioritizes some high power functions. If you read between the lines, that would say that if you keep using the computer for watching YouTube videos, it would allocate resources thusly.
That's weird, on macOS System Preferences there's a Battery option and inside it there's another Battery option (on the left sidebar, just above Power Adapter).
Just like on the Apple TV device there's an app called Apple TV.
Who is the genius who designs these things?
Just like on the Apple TV device there's an app called Apple TV.
Who is the genius who designs these things?
Funny thing about that turbo button on those old dos computers… it made them run slower for backward compatibility, games that set there speed based on clock speed, woukd run too fast on these new machines. Turning on turbo mode would slow them down.
I know what it was for. It was just a joke. Also it always felt so cool pressing that button.
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Inside of the app called Apple TV there are Apple TV shows, so one could correctly say they are watching Apple TV in Apple TV on an Apple TV. 😁
Now just imagine when Apple gets around to doing a show about Apple TV- something like In the AppleTV writers room or behind the scenes at AppleTV.
And if the long-rumored Apple Television ever shows up...
That's like gettin' the boot for puttin' boots in the boot.
Yeah. I just thought with such a low power draw maybe I could get a 50% discount on the power mode.
I have been testing this mode with 16" Max/64/4TB using Geekbench and noticed score is a bit lower than automatic option. Tested several times and got same results. Anyone seeing this issue ?
I have it turned on and noticed no difference in performance, or fans, either way. It’s either broken, it does nothing, or I’m not using it right 😂
tested more and not seeing much difference now
Geekbench will definitely not show a difference. Try encoding a 1hr 4K prores clip with filters and effects. That should give you an idea of if it’s doing anything.
How about it does nothing BECAUSE you’re not doing it right 😂 Basically, it allows an extended acceleration (darn the power efficiency) of image based operations. If the CPU’s not doing any massive image based operations, then it’s business as usual.
From the description, looks like just GPU-intensive tasks, specifically those called on for rendering large files or doing graphically intensive tasks. Turning this on won’t get you any extra tracks in Logic or any additional instruments or effect instances.
Ran a Lightroom Classic export of about 1300 images in "Auto" mode, and again in "High Power" mode. Both runs took about 20 minutes, without a discernible difference--possibly ran about 5 seconds faster in "High Power". It seems to be a fully CPU intensive task, and might not be making use of GPU cores. So for this particular use case, it didn't seem to achieve a marked improvement.
How large were the images? Since Apple mentions color grading 8K ProRes video, which would be thousands upon thousands of large files, 1300 might not even tickle the system
LR barely utilizes GPU cores even on a decked out Mac Pro, it is just the way it is coded. In the case of an M1 Max MBP, if the LR export task only stresses out CPU cores while not doing much on the GPU cores, it means the TDP of the SoC is not being fully requested, thus not stepping into the territory where "High Power Mode" makes a difference (which I think are power budget and heat dissension efficiency).
I have a base 14" and did a test project with Nikon D850 14-bit RAW (45MP), culling / development / preview generation / export pretty much all tasks simply demand full CPU cores, whereas the GPU cores are only needed in develop module doing adjustments that need to draw screen. IStat Menus report CPU utilization being 600%+ at all times and GPU is like 25% or less.How large were the images? Since Apple mentions color grading 8K ProRes video, which would be thousands upon thousands of large files, 1300 might not even tickle the system
The way the M1 Max SoC is designed, the CPU core is hardly different from the base M1 Pro, the extra silicon are almost all graphic / video related. So yes it will take a CPU+GPU bound task for High Power Mode to be meaningfully different.
Maybe some 8K video with realtime effects could do the trick. Maybe Aftereffects previews? Or is it that we think only 3d renders like Blender could force the GPUs to ramp up?
