Apple has made a change to its Low Power mode that drastically reduces performance.
I’ve spent this whole week testing the new M4 chip, specifically the M4 Pro in both the Mac mini and 16-inch MacBook Pro. They are fantastic, impressive chips, but in my testing, I noticed something pretty surprising about the way they run that I haven’t seen others talk much about. I’m talking about the pretty significant change Apple made in this generation to power modes.
Multi-core is where things get wild though. With the M4 Pro, you can see just how big of a disparity there is when running the system in Low Power. This Mac mini is 55% faster in High Power than in Low Power. That’s not much higher than the scores we see on the base M3 or M1 Pro chips. This massive drop in performance is also present on the M4 Pro MacBook Pro.
I also haven’t tested the M4 Max yet, so it’s possible that Apple the lower performance in the Low Power mode is exclusive to the M4 Pro. Maybe it’s exclusive to the “Pro” chips.
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