m3 max 14c powermetrics wattage wrong? 14" vs 16"

[djcristi]

maybe that's why on the video encoding test on post #2 , the diff is that high also. because it uses more mem i guess.

 

[leman]

maybe it's more on browser test because of memory usage that maybe draws a lot of power also?!

That is possible. The thing is, we don't really know what that web test is doing. The difference could be cause of memory, or it could be anything else. My test only stresses the CPU, it doesn't really touch the memory subsystem at all.

 

[djcristi]

and a gpu test , https://www.matthew-x83.com/online/gpu-test.php , 1000 spheres


14” m3 max 14c

low-power 1.03 ghz, score 9-10 fps
total 35, backlight-pdbr 2, phpc 12-32, phps 22-24, powermetrics pkg 18-20, gpu 16.5-17.5

auto , gpu 1.38 ghz, score 13 fps
total 63-66, backlight-pdbr 2, phpc 40-60, phps 40-43, powermetrics pkg 36, gpu 34

idle (any mode) 0.34 ghz