Heat and hotness don't mean the same thing in this context [1]. It doesn't help that the article seems to use heat (energy) and heat (temperature) interchangeably, but the principles of backside power delivery exacerbating hot spots and increasing peak temperatures will apply regardless of wattage or efficiency. A hypothetical (poorly designed) future M-series chip with bspdn could actually emit less heat specifically because the hotspots get hotter faster and cause throttling sooner.
I have an M4 Max MacBook Pro and it generates plenty of heat, especially when gaming, compiling, or transcoding. I think that's still far less heat than it could've generated if it weren't Apple Silicon, though.
I have an M3 Max, and since I don't do a lot of close to the metal work, I can almost always use my fan spinning as a metric for a poorly designed app.
Nice :) I upgraded from an M3 Pro about a month ago. (My $2,000 mistake is not saving up for this from the start. Apple machines can't be upgraded anymore :<)
Heat and hotness don't mean the same thing in this context [1]. It doesn't help that the article seems to use heat (energy) and heat (temperature) interchangeably, but the principles of backside power delivery exacerbating hot spots and increasing peak temperatures will apply regardless of wattage or efficiency. A hypothetical (poorly designed) future M-series chip with bspdn could actually emit less heat specifically because the hotspots get hotter faster and cause throttling sooner.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat#Heat_vs._temperature
good for a laptop. what would the clocks be on a desktop part that was liquid cooled?
I have an M4 Max MacBook Pro and it generates plenty of heat, especially when gaming, compiling, or transcoding. I think that's still far less heat than it could've generated if it weren't Apple Silicon, though.
I have an M3 Max, and since I don't do a lot of close to the metal work, I can almost always use my fan spinning as a metric for a poorly designed app.
Nice :) I upgraded from an M3 Pro about a month ago. (My $2,000 mistake is not saving up for this from the start. Apple machines can't be upgraded anymore :<)