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by spuz
1678 days ago
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They almost certainly do adjust CPU frequency as well (although I don't have a 2020 Mac to check this). Lowering the frequency would mean fewer instructions can be processed per second which means you are more likely to see a higher CPU usage for all tasks. What you see is probably the combination of both of these effects. It's annoying that the process monitor does not provide any way to distinguish high CPU load due to demand and high CPU load due to a low clock frequency but there is software that can display a CPU frequency chart which can give some insight: https://pietschsoft.com/post/2020/02/15/macos-monitor-cpu-us... |
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If you're on Linux, then the "tiptop" utility does just this.