M5 Max with inconsistent performance and throttling issues - Apple MacBook Pro 14 Review

[Redaktion]

Apple's new high-end chip M5 Max is once again also available for the compact MacBook Pro 14. We test the fastest version with the 40-core GPU, 128 GB RAM and 8 TB of blazing fast PCIe 5.0 storage. But the M5 Max might just be too powerful for the 14-inch MacBook Pro...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/M5-Max-with-inconsistent-performance-and-throttling-issues-Apple-MacBook-Pro-14-Review.1246064.0.html

[dada_dave]

Something just doesn't quite track. Compared to the 16" Pro, you measure lower average power commensurate with throttling during the CB 24 run, but then a higher score ... and they are in theory the same CPU. I'm not sure what is going on, but this is very strange - several oddities in these results which you noted as well, behavior seemingly needed to be fixed by Apple.

[nick23]

It's good that you called Apple out on the throttling issue (after 1-2 *seconds*, seriously??), but this really highlights the lack of the Cinebench R15 multicore endurance test - the graph of CPU performance over time that you include in literally every single Windows laptop review and that visually emphasizes any throttling.

You really need to find a similar CPU endurance test for MacOS, especially since Geekbench is notorious for only testing peak performance during bursts.

[joneskind]

What's going on with your Blender benchmark?

Just use the Blender benchmark tool and give the results.

Nobody's using Blender 3.3...