HOW TO ENABLE TURBO BOOST I7 6700 PRO
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So 1 ms appears to be the minimum amount of time to get any kind of change. Here's the results I obtained in tabular form. The minimum clock speed when idle in my configuration is 1.3 GHz. I have no idea how the results translate into different hardware/OS/code combinations.

HOW TO ENABLE TURBO BOOST I7 6700 CODE

The specific CPU-intensive code being run between clock speed measurements may also influence the result (is it integer only? FP? SSE? AVX? AVX-512?), so don't take these as exact numbers, but only order-of-magnitude/ballpark figures.

HOW TO ENABLE TURBO BOOST I7 6700 PRO

I only tried this on my 2018 15' MacBook Pro (i9-8950HK CPU) running macOS Catalina 10.15.7. It sleeps for one second (so the CPU goes back to its slowest speed), measures the clock speed, runs some code for a given amount of time, then measures the clock speed again. I wrote some code to check this, with the aid of the Intel Power Gadget API. And this leads to another question: for how long should I run this 'spooling-up' code? Probably one second is enough, but what if I'm trying to minimize this - what's a safe amount of time for 'spooling-up' code to run, to make sure the CPU will run the main code at the maximum frequency from the very first instruction executed? I'm wondering what slice of my benchmark is running at 1.3 GHz and what is running at 4.3 GHz: 1%/99%? 10%/90%? 50%/50%? Or even worse?ĭepending on the answer, I'm thinking it would make sense to run some CPU-intensive code prior to starting the benchmark as a way to 'spool up' TurboBoost. The thing is, right before this piece of CPU-intensive code is run, the CPU is essentially idle (and thus the clock speed will drop down to say 1.3 GHz). This is in the context of benchhmarking some CPU-intensive code which takes a few 10s of miliseconds to run. I'm not even sure this is up to the hardware or the operating system. The question is: how long does it take to go from 1.3 to 4.3 GHz? 1 microsecond? 1 milisecond? 100 miliseconds? Just like a turbo engine has 'turbo lag' due to the time it takes for the turbo to spool up, I'm curious what is the 'turbo lag' in Intel processors.įor instance, the i9-8950HK in my MacBook Pro 15' 2018 (running macOS Catalina 10.15.7) usually sits around 1.3 GHz when idle, but when I run a CPU-intensive program, the CPU frequency shoots up to, say 4.3 GHz or so (initially).

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