The Intel Power Gadget: A Tool for Testing Thermal Performance

In this article, we will explore the use of the Intel Power Gadget to test the thermal performance of the new MacBook Pro. The Power Gadget is a tool that allows us to simulate various loads on the processor and measure its temperature and frequency in real-time. This allows us to see how the processor handles different workloads and identify any potential thermal issues.

Our testing began with a spin-up of the Intel power gadget, which allowed us to test the processor's performance under light loads. We were pleased to find that the fans did not turn on until the temperature reached around 90 degrees Celsius, indicating that the thermal design point had been successfully avoided. This is a significant improvement over previous generations of MacBook Pros, which often experienced excessive thermal throttling.

As we continued to test the processor, we were impressed by its ability to maintain high clock speeds without dropping below a certain threshold. The temperature remained steady at around 94-96 degrees Celsius as we ran multiple tasks on the machine, indicating that the cooling system was effective in keeping the processor within its safe operating range. We also saw that the frequency of the processor averaged around 3.2 GHz, which is significantly higher than the 2.4 GHz class fee promised by Apple.

One of the most impressive aspects of our testing was the lack of thermal throttling. Despite running multiple tasks at once, the temperature remained steady and the processor continued to operate at its maximum clock speed. This is a significant improvement over previous generations of MacBook Pros, which often experienced excessive thermal throttling under similar workloads.

The results of our testing are clear: the new MacBook Pro's cooling system is highly effective in keeping the processor within its safe operating range. The fact that the processor was able to maintain high clock speeds without dropping below a certain threshold suggests that Apple has made significant improvements in this area. This is excellent news for pro users who rely on their Macs for demanding tasks such as video editing and 3D modeling.

If you're considering purchasing a new MacBook Pro, rest assured that thermal issues are no longer a concern. Our testing has shown that the machine's cooling system is highly effective, allowing it to maintain high clock speeds without excessive thermal throttling. We recommend picking up a new 16-inch MacBook Pro without hesitation, as you'll be getting a significant boost in performance over previous generations.

Conclusion

In conclusion, our testing of the Intel Power Gadget on the new MacBook Pro has shown that Apple's cooling system is highly effective in keeping the processor within its safe operating range. The machine's ability to maintain high clock speeds without dropping below a certain threshold suggests that Apple has made significant improvements in this area. As pro users, we can confidently say that thermal issues are no longer a concern when it comes to the new MacBook Pro.

For those interested in purchasing a new MacBook Pro, be sure to check out our recommended deals section for the best prices on the machine. With its highly effective cooling system and significant boost in performance over previous generations, this is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a powerful and reliable laptop.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone how are you today it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and we are talking about thermal throttling today on Apple's brand-new 16 inch macbook pro we have covered a lot about the macbook pro the brand-new one but i think this is one question that a lot of people had what are the thermal limitations of the machine is there any unnecessary unwarranted thermal throttling and are going to push that performance down below what it should be and kind of what changes m8 along the way so in this video we have the top-of-the-line 16 inch macbook pro outfitted with the 2.4 gigahertz eight core i 9 processor in the 5500 M graphics with eight gigs of VRAM so we're gonna take the machine we're gonna run it through some benchmarks and we're gonna break this video up into two parts the first part we're going to talk about the performance of this machine just the general performance and then saving for the end we're going to heavily investigate any thermal throttling that is going on here so stay tuned through the whole thing let's get going starting out with the performance of the top-of-the-line 16 inch macbook pro for the first benchmark to check out the performance of the top-of-the-line Mac we are going to turn to the Unison Heaven benchmark focusing here on graphics running the benchmark our machine with those 5500 M graphics was able to score an eighty eight point one average frame per second and a total score of 22 eighteen we also saw a maximum frame per second of 172 point three that far outpaces the standard 5300 M graphics that we already tested which earned an eighty six point six frame per second 2182 score and had a maximum frame four head of maximum frames per second of 162 point one so we definitely saw some improvements there in the graphics between these two but this isn't really using metal and not a great test it's still using OpenCL so let's turn the geek bench 5 and boot that up and run the compute test with made-up myth metal on the specific AMD Radeon pro graphics so using the compute Geekbench 5 test with metal the AMD graphics earned a 24300 way up from the 21 7:57 our base model got and that's more than a thousand points higher than the previous previous generation base score of 13 919 looking at the standard benchmark or the standard geek bench test we had an 11 sixty single core and a 72 43 multi-core and compared to the base unit which only earned in 11 28 and a 56 42 so again huge of multi-core canes here between the base unit and this one which is exactly what we'd expect things look really good from benchmarking point of view we see huge gains over the base model which is what we'd expect but also seeing gains over the previous generation models too so there's a lot of good improvements here which could bode well for that thermal testing but before we get into the thermal testing and see how these processors actually heat up we have to thank our sponsors for this video zag Zack has a lot of brands under its umbrella but one of our favors has always been movi and since we're talking about MacBook Pros and USB see we figured we should talk about our favorite battery packs from OFI which is the power station AC and the power station USB see 3xl these are some of the coolest battery packs out there on the market there are fairly large in capacity and they great fabric finish to the outside looking at the USB 3xl model it has a 45 y USBC output great for powering any high power devices such an iPad pro or a MacBook Pro really any of the macbook line that powers over USB see and then you have the power station AC which is even crazier and has a 100 watt AC output so you can plug in anything that doesn't work over USB you see here whether it's another charger whether it's a camera anything that you need to power up that has a needs just a power port to do it on they go this is the battery pack to do it and it still has a USB C output so you still have 30 watts coming out of here as well as an additional USB a port both of these guys are amazing and we pretty much travelled with one of these no matter where we go we love these battery packs we love them OFI and we love zag if you want to pick up anything from zag or Mophie use the link down below in the description and use our exclusive coupon for 20% off any single item on the store so go grab that now before that coupon expires now let's get back into that thermal testing of the 16 inch macbook pro now before we get into actually testing thermal throttling it's important to understand what their role modeling actually is now thermal throttling is what happens to a processor when it outputs so much heat that has to lower its frequency in order to not overheat or cause problems so it's putting a whole bunch of heat it's really fast going at the turbo-boost speeds the chassis can't dissipate that much heat and has to slow down eventually it reaches a point of equilibrium where it puts out a certain amount of heat that the machine is able to withstand and dissipate okay and it's at that one frequency so that is the frequency that we're looking at here in the equilibrium point we want that to be at or above what Apple's advertising so if this says it's a 2.4 gigahertz processor we don't want it to be idling around 2 gig Hertz because then you're effectively getting below the clock speed that Apple is advertising it is thermal throttling itself below the advertised threshold and that's a problem we don't want that we don't want to see that that was the problem a few years ago Apple did correct it with a software update but we don't want to see that this time around so we're gonna go into cinnamon jar 20 we're gonna run the test a whole bunch of times back to back to back to back keeping the stress on the processor keeping the heat up and it has a huge load of tasks going on and we want to see where the equilibrium point is how the processor is heating up what plant the fans turn on and if this thing is going to be thermal throttle below AB apples advertised speeds so let's go ahead spin up our 20 spin up the Intel power gadget and let's test this thing out so here we are in cinnamon jar 20 we're just spinning it up it's just starting to run at the moment the fans are off so we want to first watch this temperature here and see when the fans start to kick in and it looks like they're starting to turn on at least in our previous testing we have ran this test several times now for us they started to kick on around the 90 degree point so it's a decent point here right now it's still completely silent as this test is going through as this temperature is starting to rise you should see here the fans quietly starting to kick in around that 90 degree point and they max out around 96 which is where that temperature for us at least has been staying so that is a good thing to know if you're even under light loads those fans should not kick in at least for a little bit we do hear them starting to spin up just a tiny bit as it starts to cross that 90 degree threshold but this is just a first test and the temperature here and the fans kicking on is just one aspect we want to see what this frequency goes to you can see jumps all the way up there to 5 gigahertz right off the bat we want to see where this thing maxes out at so let's go ahead and run this has a whole bunch more time keeping the heat up on this processor and seeing where we get ok so we are probably 7 or 8 tasks deep in this testing here and we're really impressed so far so the temperature looks like it maintains around 94 to 96 degrees as we continue to run these so that looks like it's a happy temperature line there it's thermal design point and then we're looking at the frequency up here and we're actually like averaging right now at 3.26 but the actual line is more around 319 is you right around where we're averaging it got a little bit of a spike up a little bit cool down but we're averaging 310 to 320 which is really good that's a really high score for a Paloma calling this a 2.4 gigahertz processor so from what we've seen this testing we can pretty conclusively say that there is no excessive thermal throttling on the new MacBook Pro they are maintaining a great clock speed for the chipsets that are in here and a definite improvement over the previous generation so we did it we just finished our testing and we're surprised we're really surprised we know Apple talked about increasing the cooling system when the thermal issues with this machine in their press releases and everything but to see it actually for ourselves we were overjoyed the last generation unit was topping out at about 2.8 2.9 gigahertz which was above the 2.4 class fee that apple promised this is the same processor as that we're looking at now and it was only getting up to 2.8 2.9 so for this machine to get up to 3.19 basically 3.2 gigahertz just sustained at that 96 or so degrees without dropping below that's fantastic it is well above apple's average highest clock speeds so it doesn't seem Apple as having any more thermal issues with their machines for as small and compact as these aren't running at such great speeds we're impressed this is in overall win for pro users they're getting a lot more performance out of this machine over the previous generation which you saw earlier in our performance testing if you were holding off on picking up a new 16 inch macbook pro we even see if there's any thermal issues there rest assured they're not go ahead and pick one up you can find the best it deals at the links down below in the description save yourself some money let me know what you guys think about all this over on twitter at andrew underscore osu and if you want to help out our sponsors zag and Mophie you can use the link down below in the description with our coupon code and save 20% off any single item make sure you guys do that before the coupon code expires and otherwise we'll see you in the next video hey everyone did you guys like that video be sure to click on that like button so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider on all social media channels if you want the best prices on any Apple gear check out the Apple insider price guide that is updated daily and until next time we'll see you laterwhat's up everyone how are you today it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and we are talking about thermal throttling today on Apple's brand-new 16 inch macbook pro we have covered a lot about the macbook pro the brand-new one but i think this is one question that a lot of people had what are the thermal limitations of the machine is there any unnecessary unwarranted thermal throttling and are going to push that performance down below what it should be and kind of what changes m8 along the way so in this video we have the top-of-the-line 16 inch macbook pro outfitted with the 2.4 gigahertz eight core i 9 processor in the 5500 M graphics with eight gigs of VRAM so we're gonna take the machine we're gonna run it through some benchmarks and we're gonna break this video up into two parts the first part we're going to talk about the performance of this machine just the general performance and then saving for the end we're going to heavily investigate any thermal throttling that is going on here so stay tuned through the whole thing let's get going starting out with the performance of the top-of-the-line 16 inch macbook pro for the first benchmark to check out the performance of the top-of-the-line Mac we are going to turn to the Unison Heaven benchmark focusing here on graphics running the benchmark our machine with those 5500 M graphics was able to score an eighty eight point one average frame per second and a total score of 22 eighteen we also saw a maximum frame per second of 172 point three that far outpaces the standard 5300 M graphics that we already tested which earned an eighty six point six frame per second 2182 score and had a maximum frame four head of maximum frames per second of 162 point one so we definitely saw some improvements there in the graphics between these two but this isn't really using metal and not a great test it's still using OpenCL so let's turn the geek bench 5 and boot that up and run the compute test with made-up myth metal on the specific AMD Radeon pro graphics so using the compute Geekbench 5 test with metal the AMD graphics earned a 24300 way up from the 21 7:57 our base model got and that's more than a thousand points higher than the previous previous generation base score of 13 919 looking at the standard benchmark or the standard geek bench test we had an 11 sixty single core and a 72 43 multi-core and compared to the base unit which only earned in 11 28 and a 56 42 so again huge of multi-core canes here between the base unit and this one which is exactly what we'd expect things look really good from benchmarking point of view we see huge gains over the base model which is what we'd expect but also seeing gains over the previous generation models too so there's a lot of good improvements here which could bode well for that thermal testing but before we get into the thermal testing and see how these processors actually heat up we have to thank our sponsors for this video zag Zack has a lot of brands under its umbrella but one of our favors has always been movi and since we're talking about MacBook Pros and USB see we figured we should talk about our favorite battery packs from OFI which is the power station AC and the power station USB see 3xl these are some of the coolest battery packs out there on the market there are fairly large in capacity and they great fabric finish to the outside looking at the USB 3xl model it has a 45 y USBC output great for powering any high power devices such an iPad pro or a MacBook Pro really any of the macbook line that powers over USB see and then you have the power station AC which is even crazier and has a 100 watt AC output so you can plug in anything that doesn't work over USB you see here whether it's another charger whether it's a camera anything that you need to power up that has a needs just a power port to do it on they go this is the battery pack to do it and it still has a USB C output so you still have 30 watts coming out of here as well as an additional USB a port both of these guys are amazing and we pretty much travelled with one of these no matter where we go we love these battery packs we love them OFI and we love zag if you want to pick up anything from zag or Mophie use the link down below in the description and use our exclusive coupon for 20% off any single item on the store so go grab that now before that coupon expires now let's get back into that thermal testing of the 16 inch macbook pro now before we get into actually testing thermal throttling it's important to understand what their role modeling actually is now thermal throttling is what happens to a processor when it outputs so much heat that has to lower its frequency in order to not overheat or cause problems so it's putting a whole bunch of heat it's really fast going at the turbo-boost speeds the chassis can't dissipate that much heat and has to slow down eventually it reaches a point of equilibrium where it puts out a certain amount of heat that the machine is able to withstand and dissipate okay and it's at that one frequency so that is the frequency that we're looking at here in the equilibrium point we want that to be at or above what Apple's advertising so if this says it's a 2.4 gigahertz processor we don't want it to be idling around 2 gig Hertz because then you're effectively getting below the clock speed that Apple is advertising it is thermal throttling itself below the advertised threshold and that's a problem we don't want that we don't want to see that that was the problem a few years ago Apple did correct it with a software update but we don't want to see that this time around so we're gonna go into cinnamon jar 20 we're gonna run the test a whole bunch of times back to back to back to back keeping the stress on the processor keeping the heat up and it has a huge load of tasks going on and we want to see where the equilibrium point is how the processor is heating up what plant the fans turn on and if this thing is going to be thermal throttle below AB apples advertised speeds so let's go ahead spin up our 20 spin up the Intel power gadget and let's test this thing out so here we are in cinnamon jar 20 we're just spinning it up it's just starting to run at the moment the fans are off so we want to first watch this temperature here and see when the fans start to kick in and it looks like they're starting to turn on at least in our previous testing we have ran this test several times now for us they started to kick on around the 90 degree point so it's a decent point here right now it's still completely silent as this test is going through as this temperature is starting to rise you should see here the fans quietly starting to kick in around that 90 degree point and they max out around 96 which is where that temperature for us at least has been staying so that is a good thing to know if you're even under light loads those fans should not kick in at least for a little bit we do hear them starting to spin up just a tiny bit as it starts to cross that 90 degree threshold but this is just a first test and the temperature here and the fans kicking on is just one aspect we want to see what this frequency goes to you can see jumps all the way up there to 5 gigahertz right off the bat we want to see where this thing maxes out at so let's go ahead and run this has a whole bunch more time keeping the heat up on this processor and seeing where we get ok so we are probably 7 or 8 tasks deep in this testing here and we're really impressed so far so the temperature looks like it maintains around 94 to 96 degrees as we continue to run these so that looks like it's a happy temperature line there it's thermal design point and then we're looking at the frequency up here and we're actually like averaging right now at 3.26 but the actual line is more around 319 is you right around where we're averaging it got a little bit of a spike up a little bit cool down but we're averaging 310 to 320 which is really good that's a really high score for a Paloma calling this a 2.4 gigahertz processor so from what we've seen this testing we can pretty conclusively say that there is no excessive thermal throttling on the new MacBook Pro they are maintaining a great clock speed for the chipsets that are in here and a definite improvement over the previous generation so we did it we just finished our testing and we're surprised we're really surprised we know Apple talked about increasing the cooling system when the thermal issues with this machine in their press releases and everything but to see it actually for ourselves we were overjoyed the last generation unit was topping out at about 2.8 2.9 gigahertz which was above the 2.4 class fee that apple promised this is the same processor as that we're looking at now and it was only getting up to 2.8 2.9 so for this machine to get up to 3.19 basically 3.2 gigahertz just sustained at that 96 or so degrees without dropping below that's fantastic it is well above apple's average highest clock speeds so it doesn't seem Apple as having any more thermal issues with their machines for as small and compact as these aren't running at such great speeds we're impressed this is in overall win for pro users they're getting a lot more performance out of this machine over the previous generation which you saw earlier in our performance testing if you were holding off on picking up a new 16 inch macbook pro we even see if there's any thermal issues there rest assured they're not go ahead and pick one up you can find the best it deals at the links down below in the description save yourself some money let me know what you guys think about all this over on twitter at andrew underscore osu and if you want to help out our sponsors zag and Mophie you can use the link down below in the description with our coupon code and save 20% off any single item make sure you guys do that before the coupon code expires and otherwise we'll see you in the next video hey everyone did you guys like that video be sure to click on that like button so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider on all social media channels if you want the best prices on any Apple gear check out the Apple insider price guide that is updated daily and until next time we'll see you later\n"