Is 100-105 cpu Celsius on the new M4 Mini thermal throttling?

[waloshin]

Apple Compressor export time 15 minutes compared to Adobe Media Encoder 11 minutes.

While exporting the mini was at 101-105 Celsius on the cpu.

GPU was 32% usage, memory was in the green.

 

[AAPLGeek]

Open terminal and run powermetrics and you'll have your answer

 

[waloshin]

Open terminal and run powermetrics and you'll have your answer

Will do and report back.

 

[Richard Tillard]

Looks too much.

 

[mgscheue]

One thing I've noticed is that it (base M4) seems really reluctant to push the fan speed up. I play around with some distributed computing projects and I currently have it doing some PrimeGrid work. CPU temp quickly hit 100 °C but the fan speed stayed at 1000 RPM. Guess Apple figures that's okay? It concerned me a bit, though, so I'm running Fan Control now to keep it in the 80s. The case stays quite cool even when the CPU temp is high. It seems like it would be better to pipe some heat to the case, though I suppose Apple engineers know better than I do.

 

[camotwen]

One thing I've noticed is that it (base M4) seems really reluctant to push the fan speed up. I play around with some distributed computing projects and I currently have it doing some PrimeGrid work. CPU temp quickly hit 100 °C but the fan speed stayed at 1000 RPM. Guess Apple figures that's okay? It concerned me a bit, though, so I'm running Fan Control now to keep it in the 80s. The case stays quite cool even when the CPU temp is high. It seems like it would be better to pipe some heat to the case, though I suppose Apple engineers know better than I do.

Same as maxtech found in [0], it seems that apple intentionally does not push the fans on the base mac mini, but if you control the fans manually and blast them, then temps fall and it does not throttle.

[0]

 

[vAronized]

They test all the benchmarks known to mankind, but do not go for the noise levels on each model. However, you can find their answer regarding fans and noise in the comments.

"zero fan noise on the M4, even under full load. completely silent. can't even hear it during Cinebench 2024 10 minute stress test."