14" M4 Max unbinned - Thermal throttling, share your benchmarks

[OrnaPilon]

Hello,

I recently upgraded from a Mac Mini M1 to a 14” MacBook Pro M4 Max (16c/40c). The performance boost is amazing, some of my workloads are running up to 5x faster! But I do have some concerns about the temperatures and fan speeds, they tend to spin even with light to moderate workloads.

I’m noticing some thermal throttling, which I know is expected on the 14” model, but I’d like to get a better idea of how bad it is. When running Cinebench, my scores are 10-20% lower than what I’ve found online (most of the info I’ve seen is for the 16” version, not much on the 14”).

If you have the 14” M4 Max unbinned version, it’d be super helpful if you could run Cinebench 2024 (or even R23) CPU multi-core test and share your results here (MX Power Gadget clockspeed/power data is useful too). I’m trying to figure out if my unit is working as it should.

My Cinebench 2024 results:
GPU: 16024
CPU Multi Core: 1820
CPU Single Core: 174

My Cinebench R23 results:
CPU Multi Core: 25347
CPU Single Core: 2178

Thank you for your help!

 

[hovscorpion12]

Yeah. 174 on CPU is not good. You should getting 3900 on CPU single score. Definitely a defective system.

 

[OrnaPilon]

Yeah. 174 on CPU is not good. You should getting 3900 on CPU single score. Definitely a defective system.

174 on single-core in Cinebench 2024 is actually a good value and aligns with what I’ve seen. Single core test doesn’t generate much heat, so there’s no throttling. It’s the multi-core results that concern me.

 

[bnumerick]

My Cinebench 2024 results:
GPU: 16024
CPU Multi Core: 1820
CPU Single Core: 174

My Cinebench R23 results:
CPU Multi Core: 25347
CPU Single Core: 2178

Thank you for your help!

Scores seem fine to me. I just ran Cinebench 2024 on my 16" and got 168 single core, 1910 multi and 16158 GPU. If you have a moment can you download the trial of Video AI and run the benchmark a few times back to back and post the fps of the second run? You run it by going to Process -> Benchmark. Leave the settings default. I'm primarily interested in seeing the Rhea results.

Here's a link to the trial: https://www.topazlabs.com/downloads

 

[OrnaPilon]

Scores seem fine to me. I just ran Cinebench 2024 on my 16" and got 168 single core, 1910 multi and 16158 GPU. If you have a moment can you download the trial of Video AI and run the benchmark a few times back to back and post the fps of the second run? You run it by going to Process -> Benchmark. Leave the settings default. I'm primarily interested in seeing the Rhea results.

Here's a link to the trial: https://www.topazlabs.com/downloads

Do you have the 16c/40c unbinned model? Did you test in High Power mode or Auto mode?
Here are the VideoAI results, let me know if you need any additional information:

 

[groovatious]

14" unbinned M4 Max 16c here.


Cinebench R23:
Multi Core: 23,472 pts
Single Core: 2,173 pts

 

[djinn]

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[bnumerick]

Do you have the 16c/40c unbinned model? Did you test in High Power mode or Auto mode?
Here are the VideoAI results, let me know if you need any additional information:

Cool thank you! That is not far off my 16" (I get 1.1FPS in Rhea) and on par with the M1 Ultra 48 core GPU.

Yes I have 16/40 unbinned. Always running in high power mode. It was not a fresh reboot though and I did have a couple of apps in the background but not doing much. If it affected anything it should have just been multicore.