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Seriously, do the Synapse 3 Performance Modes do anything?

  • July 17, 2020
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Using: a mid-2019 Razer Blade Pro 15 RTX 2080 Max-Q and 240 Hz screen 32 GB Kingston HyperX DDR4-1666 RAM w/ XMP1 Profile 2 TB Samsung Evo Plus m.2 SSD I've run every permutation of Balanced Mode, Performance Mode (Max/Min CPU slider and Max/Min GPU) through Geekbench 5, and what I've found is this: CPU: Single Core: 1206-1207 across every permutation Multicore: Min 4470, Balanced 5447, Max 6340 GPU: Min Slider: 95368 Balanced Mode: 91380 Max Slider: 100759 Summary: Singe-core CPU performance literally doesn't change Multicore performance can go up by 1.4x GPU performance decreases by 5% when the slider is set from maximum to minimum, and decreases by 9% when set to Balanced So my question is - what's exactly the point of the GPU slider? I measured only very minor changes in heat and performance across the board. As for the CPU - this I get, as it's the primary driver of heat in this laptop (the GPU runs surprisingly cool even when maxed out), but why does the slider only effect multicore? Wouldn't decreasing single-core performance have just as much of a heat impact?
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