M1 Max very slow graphics performance after wake

[stevemiller]

Hi all,

I'm having a pretty substantial issue where after sleeping, my M1 Max will have severely degraded graphics performance. Here is the Geekbench metal score, which should normally be over 60k. It isn't just benchmarks though, it makes any apps that depend the gpu almost unusable. This can happen even if the system falls asleep for only a minute or two. I've been on with Apple support and they've had me try a new user account and even reinstalling the OS, and the issue persists. I mean I'm sure this can't be happening to everyone, but I wanted to see if its happening to anyone else (some sort of Monterey bug?) or if this is likely going to require taking the hardware in.

 

[yogeewan]

It does seem to happen occasionally with me. I have had to restart to play rise of the tomb raider every time I've let me Mac go to sleep and wake up. Mine is an M1 Pro 14 inch, so I have a feeling its a software bug in Monterey, considering it goes back to normal on restart.

 

[BrianBaughn]

It definitely sounds like a bad bug that should be reported by all. It it just the M1 Max?

 

[stevemiller]

I don't know if this lends credence to it being a Monterey bug, but I did a full reformat today using the App Store version of 12.1 on a USB key, rather than a recovery reinstall (which didn't help), and that seems to have cleared it up at least for now. I reinstalled most of the same stuff I had before, and it hasn't tripped it up yet, but we'll see.

 

[andyzed]

Really weird, I have the same issue basically. But I think mine is related to having a dock connected and a 5K display connected to the dock and when I wake it from sleep (in clamshell mode) I will definitely notice the degraded graphics performance. Not really sure how to get this fixed...

 

[stevemiller]

Really weird, I have the same issue basically. But I think mine is related to having a dock connected and a 5K display connected to the dock and when I wake it from sleep (in clamshell mode) I will definitely notice the degraded graphics performance. Not really sure how to get this fixed...

are you on 12.2 beta by chance? I suspect it might have been the culprit, as it hasn't popped up again since my reformat, and I'm using all the same software.

 

[andyzed]

Sadly no, I'm on the latest public release 12.1. I've seen the same issue with my MBA M1... so I suspect the OS to have something weird going on.

 

[Nocturnal-G]

No idea if it’s a bug… but I’ve had two M1 Pros behave like this. Has nothing to do with sleeping (at least in my case, since I turn it off) the GPU kind of has a mind of its own. Runs when it wants…

M1 Pro 10 core / 16 core GPU -

Score should be over 12k

 

[benze]

Sadly no, I'm on the latest public release 12.1. I've seen the same issue with my MBA M1... so I suspect the OS to have something weird going on.

I'm still on 12.1 and seeing the same problems as well.

Did upgrading in-place to 12.2 resolve your problem?

 

[andyzed]

I kinda fixed the issue by upgrading to a 14" M1 Max, but I still see weird graphical / bluetooth glitches from time to time so cant really say for sure whats happening.

 

[efreibe]

I have an Intel Macbook Pro Retina 2015 (with an Intel Iris Card) running on Monterey 12.6.6, I found this thread searching in internet for a solution to this problem, the symptoms are the same, after waking up from sleeping for a couple of hours (sleeping for one or two hours is fine), the system starts to lag a lot.

The greenbench scores goes down by 5x, tried everything, log out does not work, reinstalling the SO (I've tried earlier versions of Monterey) didn't work at all, the computer is unusable because every app that demands a little of graphic power slows down the entire system.

One thing that I've noted is that, even the entire system is slow, the activity monitor shows the CPU working at 5 or 10% at most. Even the fans are quiet. Seems like the GPU is disconnected totally from the system. Spindumps showing nothing abnormal.

Restarting the mac automatically resolves the issue. But is a pain in the a** to restart several times a day.

I think that it has nothing to do with the hardware, it must be kext related or something like that.

 

[stevemiller]

I have an Intel Macbook Pro Retina 2015 (with an Intel Iris Card) running on Monterey 12.6.6, I found this thread searching in internet for a solution to this problem, the symptoms are the same, after waking up from sleeping for a couple of hours (sleeping for one or two hours is fine), the system starts to lag a lot.

The greenbench scores goes down by 5x, tried everything, log out does not work, reinstalling the SO (I've tried earlier versions of Monterey) didn't work at all, the computer is unusable because every app that demands a little of graphic power slows down the entire system.

One thing that I've noted is that, even the entire system is slow, the activity monitor shows the CPU working at 5 or 10% at most. Even the fans are quiet. Seems like the GPU is disconnected totally from the system. Spindumps showing nothing abnormal.

Restarting the mac automatically resolves the issue. But is a pain in the a** to restart several times a day.

I think that it has nothing to do with the hardware, it must be kext related or something like that.

Agreed, my original issue was definitely software related. Full wipe and reinstall of the OS was the only permanent solution I found that worked, as repair reinstalls didn't help. Also notable that it was a version of Monterey that caused it for me as well.

Hope you're able to get it resolved, it really does make the system miserable to use!