I've been testing Apple Silicon devices in their desktop configurations on the Mac Studio and now retired Mac Pro and it seems like they're greatly bottlenecked by their clock speeds. For reference here's my testing results.
Testing Results:
- Mac Studio M2 Max • 32GBs RAM • 30 core GPU • 1TB Storage
- CPU Utilization • 60% • 20W
- CPU Temperature • 47ºC
- GPU Utilization • 100% • 20W
- GPU Temperature • 55ºC
- Fan Speed • 50%
- Workload Duration • 2hrs
Another point is that the clock speed on the M2 Max's CPU is 3.5 GHz and on the GPU it is 1.44 GHz at max performance. Which the Mac Studio has no trouble pushing. My question is how do I push those clock speeds higher? Cause 1.44 GHz at 55ºC is evidence for extensive headroom. I'm sure there are tools internally for testing the upper limits of the silicon, but it makes no sense why it would be set so low the Mac Studio is at no worries of melting. Is there any way to push the performance of my Mac Studio?
FB22713867 - Possibilities of Overclocking Apple Silicon
The Apple Developer Forums are focused on supported techniques, and this sort of thing is most definitely not supported. There are other sites on the ’net where you’ll find folks interested in topics like this, and I suspect you’ll get better results by engaging there.
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