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Varmoes said:

I started to question Dave2D approach when he tested multiple laptops. Sure it does thermal throttle but hell. Macs are optimized for Mac applications. This is simply stupid from him. Try to benchtest Final cut Pro from a PC. Even though this is impossible, I'm sure it would perform badly.

From what I see it, the problem is not that MacBook Pro performs worse than some Windows notebook with some Adobe application. The real problem here is that the new higher-end 2018 MacBook Pro performs worse than some old lower-end 2017 Macbook Pro with the same application, despite it's from Adobe or Apple or Microsoft. When you run the same application on two devices, I expect the newer higher-end model should perform better than some older lower-end cheaper model of the exactly same product line from the exactly same manufacturer. Really, it's a problem for Apple if the 2018 i9-based Macbook Pro performs worse than the 2017 i7-based Macbook Pro in any one application.

DuhSesame said:

cgWerks said:

This doesn't surprise me too much. Doesn't the iMac Pro even do this?

It does surprise me a bit, though, that it would be slower than the 2017. Aren't both CPUs similar in terms of thermals? The same chassis should have similar thermal handling capabilities... though MBPs have never handled heat all that well in my experience. And, at least in the past, the problems went beyond the CPU throttling down, but resulted in damage to other components.

Like I said before, nope.  Same 14nm and two extra cores, you’d only expect it to be hotter.

But it’s not only the MacBook Pro that throttles, most of the laptops do back in the 4th generation.

Thermal throttling is quite an acceptable practice, the issue here is that the new higher-end 2018 Macbook Pro throttles so much that it performs worse than lower-end cheaper 2017 models, now THAT is a big prblem.