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owner of a 16”

a question i ask myself

video rendering throttles to 30% at steady state

the top end CPU perf only lasts a minute or so before it throttles

I think this is every Apple Intel platform. My i7 6-core Mini can manage about 30 seconds at full clock if they're all lit. One problem seems to be that the fan hysteresis is too long, it spins up the fan too slowly and the CPU is already throttling down before it reaches full airflow.

To be fair, it stops throttling when I hold it over the A/C unit. ;)

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