Of course there are - have you seen all those MacBook Pros, used by professionals of all types world wide?
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2018 i9 MacBook Pro throttling discussion [merged]
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Of course there are - have you seen all those MacBook Pros, used by professionals of all types world wide?
We are talking about reality here. Can you carry an additional pound of weight or not? If a child can carry a pound of weight, if a short, weak female can carry an extra 6 lbs of weight on her upper body, not to mention a tool belt which probably adds an equal amount of weight, you, as an adult male (unless disabled) can carry an additional pound of weight.
Weigh yourself in the morning. Then weigh yourself with clothes plus anything you normally carry in your pockets. Get back to me.
That's still only 2 lbs.
Look at the examples above. How are you able to walk around with 5 extra lbs of clothes, keys, wallet, cell phone without being in agony all day?
How are hikers and backpackers able to hike 12 miles a day for days, weeks, or months at a time with 30 lbs packs?
This is because a normal adult of average strength can easily carry a laptop whether it weighs 2 lbs or 8 lbs.
I used Mac Fan Control and set the speed to the maximum possible. There's really no "curve" here it's "max."
And yet they throttle when they are used for more than a couple of minutes.
I ran some more detailed tests today.
It throttles. It throttles very badly on default / automatic fans. It's not very bad on max speed.
If you check the description I recorded both tests and uploaded those, so you can watch them side by side in real time.
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I had to register just for this post. Thank you so much, Aea! I´ve been waiting for this video for days now! So your video just confirmed that the MacBook 15inch 2018 is capable to run the i9 with base clock speeds. Apple hopefully adjusts the fan speed and unnecessary throttling via software update. It would be very interesting to see the results of Cinebench R15 (run 3-5 times) and Geekbench when the fan speed is set to the highest. Could you do that?
Sorry for my language, I am from Germany!
Like every laptop that size. It's still really fast, and used by professionals in various fields around the world. Unless you're on these forums. Here, it's basically a fashion accessory wrapped up in a children's toy.
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Yes, I don't know how a few of these % of benchmark scores will let you sleep at night.
Jesus youtube is it necessary to have 4 ad break in an 11 minute video? I'm notpaying any heed to the ads you know!
The problem for me personally is that it can't seem to hold its base speed. I expected the throttling to happen in the 2.9 to 4.8 range; as in it would only be able to very shortly hit the 4.8Ghz when required and then slow downwards to 2.9. I did not expect that it would slow down below the 2.9Ghz and, even worse, do this consistently where it may not hit the 2.9Ghz for some time. I guess I'll wait it out some more and bring this one back.
This amount of screeching for attention...
All of your salty tears from reading valid criticisms of apple.
You don't even have a 2018 MacBook Pro.
So, no. Your "criticism" is not valid.
That's with fans set to auto right? ... no manual control setting them to max?
Can you see what happens when you compress something in Adobe Media Encoder or Premiere? That's a stress test but how about a real world one... what happens to the base clock?
Yes auto fan, fresh outa the box. Sadly I don't have either of those software to test
, only thing I have is photoshop.np!
I ran some more detailed tests today.
It throttles. It throttles very badly on default / automatic fans. It's not very bad on max speed.
If you check the description I recorded both tests and uploaded those, so you can watch them side by side in real time.
You should come back to fhc.
I'm sure others have seen this as well, but this is the first sentence of the introduction for the Intel Power Gadget:
"Intel® Power Gadget is a software-based power usage monitoring tool enabled for Intel® Core™ processors (from 2nd Generation up to 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processors)."
If I'm not mistaken the new Mac's are using Intel's 8th generation, so there may be some issues there as well.
"Intel® Power Gadget is a software-based power usage monitoring tool enabled for Intel® Core™ processors (from 2nd Generation up to 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processors)."
If I'm not mistaken the new Mac's are using Intel's 8th generation, so there may be some issues there as well.
I noticed that earlier when I looked up the Intel Power Gadget.
zshane1125, thank you for sharing this with us. I think the result looks really good. I think we need a 30 min torture test to disprove those throttling videos on youtube.
It is interesting that you have different results than Aea, because there was no short time throttling to 0.8 Ghz.
How is your MacBook in idle ? Are the fans on or loud? How is battery life (only if you used it for some days now)?
Could you also run Geekbench and Cinebench R15 CPU test3-5 times in a row? This is very interesting because in Cinebench the i9 had bad results on notebookcheck.com. Of course it is important to see what the Intel Power Gadget shows us.