Of course, this will depend on a lot of factors (optimization of the game at the processor level, if the game is CPU or GPU intensive, if the game is optimized for quad core processors or not, etc…). The aim of this post is not to prove that turboboost increases the performance but rather to show that disabling it doesn’t necessary decrease the performance. Fps drops occur more often and are more serious. Disabling turboboost leads to a significant loss in performance. This is another story regarding Guild Wars 2. I even tend to get some more fps when turboboost is disabled (max fps, min fps and avg. For Overwatch, there is no visible performance loss by disabling turboboost. A GPU intensive game ( Overwatch) and a CPU intensive game ( Guild Wars 2). So, this trick might turn out to be very useful! I can say that my fans are running a lot quieter during my gaming sessions with turboboost disabled, and all this without any performance loss at first sight! Moreover, note that I could only play Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider with turboboost disabled, otherwise the games crashed during intensive fight sequences. Nice but, you may tell me, how is the effect of turboboost on everyday use? However, it may be useful when very intensive task enter into play (min fps), as expected.

In Unigine Heaven 4.0 the general performance gain/loss is ridiculous. The question I want to answer is: How does turboboost affect the performance and the behaviour of a MBP? Although turboboost is highly desirable for Desktops, we are talking here about laptops, for which heat and temperature become very annoying issues. However, it also makes your CPU release more heat and, potentially, slows your MBP. Turboboost is a nice feature if you need to increase your computing power for a short period of time. I disabled turboboost on my MBP to see its impact on performance.

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