torrentamer wrote:
I recently bought a MBP with the 12-core M2 Pro. I've been having a lot of fun with it, and just to see what would happen had 10 tabs open in Safari with both DaVinci Resolve and Ableton Live running while playing a video from my files on the desktop. All of this and the chip only got up to 45 degrees or so with the CPU at 80-90% idle.
Here's what I don't understand. I was editing later with only Resolve and maybe 1 page in Safari open. I added a film grain and color adjustment clip on top of my video in Resolve. Activity Monitor said that I had about 75% of the CPU idle, but the CPU temps just kept climbing. When I stopped the clip about a minute in, it was about 65 degrees and climbing, and the case was getting noticeably warm.
Is it normal to have those temps with that much CPU idle, or was it just that specific process?
It seems normal the Mac would heat up, if the Mac was in danger of overheating it would shut itself down.
Keep your Mac notebook within acceptable operating temperatures
Keep your Mac laptop within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support
for your third party— If in doubt refer to the developers website; Support/Help/FAQ/known issues/compatibility /updates...Contact a third-party vendor - Apple Support
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https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/
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you can stress test the Intel Mac—> you can try on the M1/M2 and report back your success or failure—
If you are interested in stress test CPU, from the Terminal, copy and paste:
yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null &
you can load up the multiple cores enter this line multiple times...and view the CPU in Activity Monitor>Window>CPU Usage
to kill the process:
killall yes
