M1 Air Low Power Mode on Monterey 12.0.1 Geekbench scores

[telo123]

I was genuinely curious if Low Power Mode will make a significant decrease in performance in achieving better battery life.
For anyone curious, here are some raw data from Geekbench 5 I conducted today on my M1 MacBook Air on macOS Monterey 12.0.1 (256 GB SSD/8 GB RAM).

Low Power Mode:

Single Core: 1069 (~37% decrease)
Multi-Core: 4389 (~40% decrease)
Base Frequency: 1.95 GHz

Normal Mode:

Single Core: 1703
Multi-Core: 7400
Base Frequency: 3.20 GHz.

Wonder how this will translate into battery life.
I suspect for daily office-tasks, streaming and consuming content, LPM will still be more than enough.

 

[BootLoxes]

Forgot this was even a thing. Gonna turn it on and finish my week and see if I notice a change

 

[telo123]

Forgot this was even a thing. Gonna turn it on and finish my week and see if I notice a change

Please do, I'm curious as well and will be doing the same. I do wish they at least coloured the battery to yellow-orange like they do for iPhone and iPad in case we forget we have it on.

 

[BootLoxes]

Please do, I'm curious as well and will be doing the same. I do wish they at least coloured the battery to yellow-orange like they do for iPhone and iPad in case we forget we have it on.

Just leave it on for a few years and then suddenly remember it exists to make your mac feel like brand new

 

[EugW]

I was genuinely curious if Low Power Mode will make a significant decrease in performance in achieving better battery life.
For anyone curious, here are some raw data from Geekbench 5 I conducted today on my M1 MacBook Air on macOS Monterey 12.0.1 (256 GB SSD/8 GB RAM).

Low Power Mode:

Single Core: 1069 (~37% decrease)
Multi-Core: 4389 (~40% decrease)
Base Frequency: 1.95 GHz

Normal Mode:

Single Core: 1703
Multi-Core: 7400
Base Frequency: 3.20 GHz.

Wonder how this will translate into battery life.
I suspect for daily office-tasks, streaming and consuming content, LPM will still be more than enough.

Your low power mode is still faster than my 2017 iMac Core i5-7600 at full speed. This machine scores approx. 1000/3500. Performance for daily office tasks and media consumption is excellent.

I also have a 2010 iMac Core i7-870 which scores about 600/2200. It can occasionally lag here and there but overall I would classify its performance as very good for such tasks.

 

[telo123]

Your low power mode is still faster than my 2017 iMac Core i5-7600 at full speed. This machine scores approx. 1000/3500. Performance for daily office tasks and media consumption is excellent.

I also have a 2010 iMac Core i7-870 which scores about 600/2200. It can occasionally lag here and there but overall I would classify its performance as very good for such tasks.

Now that is insane!

 

[xraydoc]

I had forgotten this was a feature in Monterey until this thread. Just turned it on. We'll give it a go and see if it makes any noticeable difference in either basic performance or battery life.

 

[telo123]

How is everyone with Low Power Mode on?

I find that I maybe get 30 mins to an hour more under my usual workload (Zoom, a couple Word docs, GoodNotes 5, and PowerPoint).

I don't notice any sort of performance slowness.

 

[telo123]

I had forgotten this was a feature in Monterey until this thread. Just turned it on. We'll give it a go and see if it makes any noticeable difference in either basic performance or battery life.

Forgot this was even a thing. Gonna turn it on and finish my week and see if I notice a change

Have you guys noticed a significant increase in battery life, performance decrease?

 

[BootLoxes]

Have you guys noticed a significant increase in battery life, performance decrease?

I forgot it was on until this post reminded me. Zero performance difference at anything that I tend to use it for. Battery life up about 10% longer. Overall would recommend. Havent tried it for my 3D stuff yet though

 

[xraydoc]

Have you guys noticed a significant increase in battery life, performance decrease?

What is nice is that you can set the low power mode to activate only when on battery power and not when plugged in to the mains.

 

[Tagbert]

Just leave it on for a few years and then suddenly remember it exists to make your mac feel like brand new

We used to do this in cheap cars, years ago. There was a Turbo button. When you turned it off, you got "turbo speed". ?

 

[telo123]

Just following up.

I do notice a bit of performance hit when I am exporting and doing basic video projects using iMovie with Low Power Mode. And when I mean a hit, I mean it might take 10 seconds more to export compared to when low power mode is off. When I am web browsing, Safari or Chrome, there is no performance drop from what I can tell. Battery life, I may get like, 30-40 mins more? It's hard to tell.