It has been a week since the launch of the new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pro, so most users who are enjoying the equipment can already offer us some details of its operation. Obviously, these are high-end equipment in terms of performance and price, so they are expected to be really powerful, power that could be reduced by thermal regulation in the case of tests performed on a 15-inch computer with a more powerful processor.
All this has to be taken with tweezers and is that right now with the temperatures that we are having in general around the world it is normal for aluminum MacBooks to heat up, but of course, This heating could directly affect performance and therefore Apple places a limitation so that none of the internal components are "scorched" and this affects performance although in the test it is quite extreme ...
The processors are more powerful and the MacBook Pro notices it when rendering
The proof is this video by youtuber Dave Lee, it's a 35 minute 5k rendering using Premier Pro and therefore this and any other team is normal to "suffer" from heat. It's so extreme that you even notice a difference when you put the MacBook Pro directly in the fridge. With this, what it achieves is to improve the processing time since the processor does not rise in temperature and it does not reduce its power, but as we say it is something taken to the extreme. It is best to watch the video:
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It seems that the new Core i9 processor in the 15-inch MacBook Pro model would need a little more cooling to run at full capacity and of course, Apple did not touch any of this on the computer so the thermal regulation limits its power at specific times.
This could be solved by Apple with a remote software update, although they will never compromise the components of the equipment to increase the power to the maximum in this type of work and therefore it is possible that it stays that way. The worst of all this is that despite the hardware improvements implemented in this new 15-inch MacBook Pro the equipment is somewhat inferior in some performance points compared to the previous model, the 15 2017-inch MacBook Pro all because of the cooling.
Will we see any change in the thermal regulation of the new equipment over time? We'll keep an eye on Apple's moves over the next few months and see more proof of safe performance, so let's see how this ends.