M1 Max's power consumption is only 43W?

[sunny5]

Maxtech's test shows that 32 cores consumes only 43W. Can anyone confirm it?

 

[crazy dave]

Very likely: Anandtech reported an average package power of around 57W for Aztec High. If the CPU and uncore take up like 3-4W and 9-11W respectively which given their other numbers and the kind of test would make sense, that works that the GPU peak would be ~43W. On Twitter, Andrei and Max disagreed over how useful Max’s graphical interface to powermetrics was but Andrei agreed that Max’s numbers and results were the same as his own.

 

[leman]

I am sure it is possible to push combined CPU/GPU power consumption to over 80W, the problem is finding a proper workload. For most practical demanding work you will be doing the power consumption will likely be under 50W

 

[Boil]

I am sure it is possible to push combined CPU/GPU power consumption to over 80W, the problem is finding a proper workload. For most practical demanding work you will be doing the power consumption will likely be under 50W

Which is astounding...! Now imagine a quad SoC Mac Pro (Cube) cruising along at 200W or so, or pegged out at under 400W; while Alder Lake is pulling 240W & next-gen AMD/NVidia GPUs are going to a 12-pin connector for 500W available power (plus the 75W thru the PCIe slot)...