[the_pwner224]

intel_gpu_top helped me solve a mysterious performance issue on a MacBook after countless hours of fruitless investigation. Overheating and throttling was an issue but even after I fixed it the system would lag hard - instantly when I used the external 4k display, and after a while on the internal 1440p screen. Turns out cool-retro-term was maxing out the integrated Intel GPU which caused the entire system to stutter and lag.

Unfortunately both the MBP and my current XPS 15 are unable to drive cool-retro-term on a 4k display with the CPU integrated graphics, and they both overheat and throttle if I use the nvidia graphics card :/

It's a really cool terminal though: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

[adrianN]

It's amazing that we think it's a good idea to pack powerful hardware into laptops that are too thin to actually make use of that hardware.

[matheusmoreira]

Laptops have very poor cooling. I have a Clevo laptop with a great processor but it will sometimes throttle itself to cool down. Great for small bursts of activity such as compilation but I don't understand how they could market these laptops as gaming machines. Running ffmpeg stabilizes the temperature at a healthy 96 degrees.

[mprovost]

It's more amazing to me that this modern powerful hardware can't emulate technology from 1983 without overheating.

[adrianN]

Modern powerful hardware has a hard time emulating a glass of water with good fidelity. Reproducing physical effects like ghosting is often harder than it looks.

[Jonnax]

There's a lot of different usages that may not heat the GPU as much. Also Windows might have better thermal management in the drivers.

CPU wise, Intel defines their TDP as the average heat dissipation, but the CPU can boost higher than this. But from what I understand they tell manufactures to design to the TDP.