PC World - USA (2021-02)

FEBRUARY 2021 PCWorld 53

minutes—it just doesn’t care. That’s

something that should be appreciated.

And yes, the older Prestige 14 with its

14nm Comet Lake U chip on its default setting

basically doesn’t move much because on

default, it’s probably so lackadaisical it

doesn’t matter anyway. It also benefits from

cutting the render time down on its

performance setting though.

V-RAY NEXT PERFORMANCE

Up next is Chaos Groups’ V-Ray Next

benchmark, another 3D rendering test. Like

Cinebench R20, it’s non-native to the new

MacBook and loves more cores. With the

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

Asus Zephyrus G148-core Ryzen 4800HS (Default AC)

Lenovo Slim 78-core Ryzen 4800U (Default AC)

Lenovo Slim 78-core Ryzen 4800U (Performance AC)

Apple MacBook Pro 138-core M1 (Default AC)

MSI Prestige 144-core Core i7-1185G7 (Default AC)

MSI Prestige 144-core Core i7-1185G7 (Performance AC)

MSI Prestige 146-core Core i7-10710U (Default AC)

MSI Prestige 146-core Core i7-10710U (Performance AC)

Acer Predator Triton 5006-core Core i7-10750H (Default AC)

10,289

9,612

6,405

5,991

4,117

4,010

9,954

10,606

8,206

9,095

7, 7 7 8

7, 7 7 3

5,795

6,207

5,565

5,991

7, 4 2 6

7, 4 0 5

Single run Default throttle test

Cinebench R23 nT

against The M1 and Intel chips even further
when the run time is reduced.
This just goes to show you the boosty
nature of laptops improves from lowering the
thermal load, putting in more fans to dissipate
that thermal load, or simply making your CPU
more efficient.
You can see that in the next chart, where
we took our Cinebench R23 single-run result
and compared it to the result of Cinebench
R23 in its default throttle test. The laptops that
face more of a thermal limit all show 6 to 8
percent improvement when the load is cut by
two-thirds, except for two: The Apple
MacBook Pro M1 and the Acer Predator Triton
500.
In the Predator Triton 500’s case, its larger
chassis, additional heat pipes and additional
venting means the CPU is just never
generating enough heat to hit that thermal
wall, even with a fairly high-wattage Intel chip
inside. Its six cores of 14nm oldness still can’t
outpace the other chips, but the thermals
clearly have no issues. That shouldn’t surprise,
as the Triton 500’s cooling was designed to
keep the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q
running smooth as well, so running a pure
CPU load means the cooling headroom is far
higher.
The MacBook Pro M1 is equally impressive
for a different reason. Despite being a thin
and light laptop, it just doesn’t seem to
generate enough heat to hurt it. You can run
Cinebench R23 for 3 minutes or 10