Even with underground supplied electricity, I've had UPS's in the house for years.
For what? Storing that much in memory suggests your CPU is doing something with it. Otherwise it might as well go to disk. My workhorse machine has 16. My various data crunching servers have had 64-256, but they were maxing out the CPU too.
It's not just single vs multi. Regular M1 has 4 high-performance cores. Question is, which things can take advantage of more than 4 cores. (Or 10 in the Max vs Ultra comparison.)
Something is wrong. Do you have a dedicated GPU? Cause I'd blame that before blaming the Intel CPU.
Agree that "All Intel MBP's" do not run hot. (Edit) Some of the later 16" Intel models appear to have far more problems of this nature than others according to herds of folks on reddit.
Seems there were two releases of 16" Intel MBPs. First one in late 2019 had only integrated graphics, second in early 2020 had dedicated. So if all these complaints are from users who have dGPUs, I'd not be surprised.
Spot on. I basically didn't like my 2018 MBP 13 i7. Lovely format, but frequently ran warm, with fans blasting. My 2021 MBP 14 Max is a dream. Runs cool and (honestly) I am yet to hear the fan. Love the machine.
Even if you are using single-threaded apps, having more cores means that working with multiple apps is smoother.
Only if you have multiple apps each using 100% on the single thread even when you're not interacting with it. That's not common. I can see Zoom in background + something else in foreground, but that's 300% CPU at most. Can't remember the last time my machine has been CPU-constrained.
Yeah, people don’t get that it’s not so much saving 10 minutes as it is you know you can achieve more in the same time. You can say “I can apply those effects, I can turn the detail level up, I can use more advanced filters” and still get your work completed on time.
It’s an old non-retina i7 with discrete graphics. It slowly heated up and by the end of a 2 hrs the fans were distracting.
I have seen reviews that show if you really push your setup for extended lengths there is a slow thermal runaway that will get the fans up. Not hair dryer, but up. Most people can’t push it that hard because you need to peg the cpus and gpus which is hard to achieve in real life.
Idk about you, but I always fuzzmark my GPU while I'm watching two multithreaded chess AIs compete.
I am running a 2016 macbook pro 13 inch with touchbar with i5 (with no GPU of course) and I haven't noticed any fan spinning while using zoom. However zoom does kills my battery in about 2 hours or so..
Yep. We got to about 1:40 and I had to plug in. Which shows how much power it uses.
I render out of ArchiCAD which pegs all CPU cores at 100% for the duration, but I don’t know if it also taps GPU cores. I think the GPU is used during 3D perspective model view while I work.
