Having owned a top-end gaming system, experiencing the problems of that realm etc. - I can safely say that we all suffer so Apple can brag about the added power (+10%), and our systems suffer to make them fail early, as simple as that
But honestly, most Motherboards treat CPU's the same way on default too, you have to manually calibrate them, for me, it's always underclocking - I had an 6700K and 7700K, I don't remember the exact numbers, but left alone, the Motherboard would feed 1.43V to the CPU, use Turbo, get the CPU close to 90C's - Just by disabling Turbo, setting the voltage to 1.23V, and clock to 4.2GHZ with Turbo disabled, I could get the ~same performance, and the CPU stayed below 70C on the same loads - with almost half the watt usage at max. - idle stayed low as well
I mean the performance to power ratios of CPU's/GPU's are just UNBELIEVABLE, I'm sure most of you reading this won't believe it either, but you usually get half the heat and watt usage, just by dropping the upper performance target by 10-20% - I had an EVGA GTX 980 Ti FTW - in the end, it was refusing to even post, I solved the issue by just manually underclocking it actively, every time the system posted, performed consistently well, by just reducing the amount of default overclocking the GPU BIOS did. So it's not just an Apple problem either, the entire hardware industry is like this. I told EVGA about this, requested a weaker clocked GPU BIOS, but they were just like "Yeah we know, and go f yourself, buy a new GPU already"
It would take ANY Engineer, 1 hour, to get use an ECO mode that could do what I described, we'd get 10% less performance maybe, but there'd be less heat and less watt usage - The "Turbo Boost Switcher" is proof, I'm surprised even that is possible, Apple should've disabled access to the Turbo as well, by the way they do things, sadly, I don't wanna use a third party closed source product - so it's heat and watt for me
But honestly, most Motherboards treat CPU's the same way on default too, you have to manually calibrate them, for me, it's always underclocking - I had an 6700K and 7700K, I don't remember the exact numbers, but left alone, the Motherboard would feed 1.43V to the CPU, use Turbo, get the CPU close to 90C's - Just by disabling Turbo, setting the voltage to 1.23V, and clock to 4.2GHZ with Turbo disabled, I could get the ~same performance, and the CPU stayed below 70C on the same loads - with almost half the watt usage at max. - idle stayed low as well
I mean the performance to power ratios of CPU's/GPU's are just UNBELIEVABLE, I'm sure most of you reading this won't believe it either, but you usually get half the heat and watt usage, just by dropping the upper performance target by 10-20% - I had an EVGA GTX 980 Ti FTW - in the end, it was refusing to even post, I solved the issue by just manually underclocking it actively, every time the system posted, performed consistently well, by just reducing the amount of default overclocking the GPU BIOS did. So it's not just an Apple problem either, the entire hardware industry is like this. I told EVGA about this, requested a weaker clocked GPU BIOS, but they were just like "Yeah we know, and go f yourself, buy a new GPU already"
It would take ANY Engineer, 1 hour, to get use an ECO mode that could do what I described, we'd get 10% less performance maybe, but there'd be less heat and less watt usage - The "Turbo Boost Switcher" is proof, I'm surprised even that is possible, Apple should've disabled access to the Turbo as well, by the way they do things, sadly, I don't wanna use a third party closed source product - so it's heat and watt for me
