<story><title>MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/17/core-i9-chip-macbook-pro-throttling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wukerplank</author><text>In all fairness: If you sell a &amp;gt;3000€ laptop, people should expect to get the full value out of it. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s hard to cool CPUs in thin laptops. But then don&amp;#x27;t let people pay for expensive upgrades that have no performance benefit.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15&amp;#x27;s thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products.&lt;p&gt;If you watch a lot of his videos, you&amp;#x27;ll notice that he almost always talks about thermals, so it&amp;#x27;s not surprising to see him focus on that aspect of the MBP.</text></item><item><author>lebrad</author><text>Dave Lee&amp;#x27;s youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.&lt;p&gt;His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Yes there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>Seems like it&amp;#x27;s hard to cool GPUs in desktops too if you&amp;#x27;re Apple&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;their maximum FP32 compute performance is 11 TFLOPS (which points to around 1340 MHz clock-rate for the Vega 64) and their peak memory bandwidth is 400 GB&amp;#x2F;s (indicating about 1600 MT&amp;#x2F;s memory speed), which is slower when compared to the Radeon RX Vega cards for desktops. The main reasons why Apple downlocks its GPUs are of course power consumption and heat dissipation
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;12152&amp;#x2F;apple-starts-imac-pro-sales-on-dec-14&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;12152&amp;#x2F;apple-starts-imac-pro-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sad to see that this is becoming a recurring theme from Apple&amp;#x27;s pro line.</text></comment>
<story><title>MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/17/core-i9-chip-macbook-pro-throttling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wukerplank</author><text>In all fairness: If you sell a &amp;gt;3000€ laptop, people should expect to get the full value out of it. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s hard to cool CPUs in thin laptops. But then don&amp;#x27;t let people pay for expensive upgrades that have no performance benefit.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15&amp;#x27;s thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products.&lt;p&gt;If you watch a lot of his videos, you&amp;#x27;ll notice that he almost always talks about thermals, so it&amp;#x27;s not surprising to see him focus on that aspect of the MBP.</text></item><item><author>lebrad</author><text>Dave Lee&amp;#x27;s youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.&lt;p&gt;His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Yes there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>It depends on workload. If I&amp;#x27;m typing code for a minute and then spending few seconds compiling and launching it, it won&amp;#x27;t trigger throttling, but reducing each compilation from 3 seconds to 2 seconds is certainly a benefit.</text></comment>