![]() Those users upgrading from Surface Pro 2 may notice a regression in performance, particularly when it comes to running prolonged CPU/GPU intensive workloads. Anand summed it up perfectly in his review: I know the thermal throttling is a big issue for a lot of people (my self included), but you need to take it into perspective as well. Hopefully microsoft will eventually comment on this and perhaps increase the thermal threshold? Who knows! Please help out by adding more things to read and look at and feel free to comment here on your own experience with GPU/CPU intensive tasks and thermal throttling. I really hope they fix this throttling and at least let it run 80-85C and not at half the speed at 60-70C. I could run diablo 3 just fine on my Lenovo yoga pro 2 with hd4400. ![]() Somewhat playable single player but not in multiplayer rift runs. It is not playable with everything low on 1440x900. Note that the CPU/GPU is at 2.6ghz/1.1ghz for about 2 minutes before it tanks to 1ghz-1.2ghz and the GPU goes down to 600mhz-800mhz. Taken from a thread discussing the issue. Surface Pro 2, but prolonged load cases will likely show a decrease in performance vs. ![]() Benchmarks will show an increase in performance due to more aggressive ramping up/down of clock speeds vs. But the big change is I believe Microsoft is more aggressive about reducing CPU and GPU frequencies in Surface Pro 3 compared to Surface Pro 2. For starters, I'm guessing that Intel is helping Microsoft with delivering better binned Haswell ULT and Y series SKUs. Either Surface Pro 3's fan and heatpipe configuration is able to remove heat far better than Surface Pro 2's design could, or the CPU in SP2 doesn't get as warm. The thermal story points us in the right direction. I, like many others here, want to make sure the device will perform adequately to my needs before spending (what is to me) a lot of money.Īt the moment here are the main things I have found about the thermal throttling: That's the real cost of a desktop replacement class laptop.I thought it would be a good idea to post articles, points of interest and comments in one place about the more apparent thermal throttling going on in the Surface Pro 3. The tradeoff is that those machines push their fans really hard and create a ton of noise. There's certainly enough novel innovation in cooling to make these machines viable, just look at any high end gaming notebook. Considering the relatively low temps this happens at, and that I've had this happen to me at Best Performance power settings (where the Surface Book 2 fans run at full tilt constantly), this shouldn't be happening, regardless of how thin everything is.As for thin machines being able to handle high performance parts, this isn't impossible. The CPU stays around 55C while this happens.What causes the throttling is some other component on the motherboard sends a signal to the CPU to force it to throttle to reduce the heat on other components in the chassis. In reply to red.radar:This specific issue isn't CPU related at all. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only issue caused by a recent Surface firmware update: Last week, reports emerged about users experiencing Wi-Fi issues on multiple Surface models after an update. “We are quickly working to address via a firmware update.” “We are aware of some customers reporting a scenario with their Surface Books where CPU speeds are slowed,” a Microsoft statement reads. However, this could be a dangerous workaround, since CPU throttling in general, and in Surface in particular, often happens specifically so that the machine doesn’t get too hot.įortunately, Microsoft says it is working on a fix. Some have also had success with a utility called ThrottleStop, which can prevent a PC’s CPU from being throttled. But the performance issues will eventually, ahem, resurface because the PC will eventually reinstall the missing driver, which is related to power management. Users have been complaining in Microsoft’s support forums as well.Īpparently, there is a temporary workaround: If you’re experiencing this issue, you can uninstall the “Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery” from Device Manager (WINKEY + X > Device Manager), detect hardware changes, and then restart the PC. Microsoft says it’s working on a fix.Īccording to multiple threads on Reddit- this may be one of the first-a recent firmware update is causing some Surface Book 2 and Surface Pro 6 PCs to throttle down to about 400 MHz, a fraction of the device’s normal performance. A recent firmware update for the Surface Book 2 and Surface Pro 6 is causing significant performance issues for some users.
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