Low Power Mode on Intel Macs

[arthur486]

Thought it would be interesting to share this tidbit. Please add your own

Machine is a 13" Macbook Pro (2020, 2.0 Ghz Intel i5 CPU)

Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark:
Regular run:
Single core: 1240
Multi core: 4443

Low-Power Mode (on battery):
Single core: 820
Multi core: 3447

Seems like the base clock of 2.0 is (mostly) enforced. Screen refresh rate remains at 60 Hz.

 

[Mattyman]

Thought it would be interesting to share this tidbit. Please add your own

Machine is a 13" Macbook Pro (2020, 2.0 Ghz Intel i5 CPU)

Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark:
Regular run:
Single core: 1240
Multi core: 4443

Low-Power Mode (on battery):
Single core: 820
Multi core: 3447

Seems like the base clock of 2.0 is (mostly) enforced. Screen refresh rate remains at 60 Hz.

How can you tell the refresh rate stays at 60hz? If I test through safari it reduces to 30hz. This result is mirrored on the iPad with low power mode enabled.

thanks.

 

[arthur486]

@Mattyman on Safari it seems to be 30 Hz indeed, on Chrome it's 60 (tried the refresh rate testi with the UFOs)