November 2020 Updates What's Happening Benchmarking We have completed benchmarking results characterizing the M1 Thermal Compound using the Phoronix Benchmark Suite! We compare three fan-based coolers attached to a A MD Ryzen 3400G Multi-Core Processor : Stock Thermal Paste with Single-Fan Wraith Cooler (green: Stock-Wraith Spire ) Stock Thermal Paste with Dual-Fan CoolMaster Hyper212x (red: Hyper212x-2xFans ) Maxwell-Lab's M1 Thermal Compound with Single-Fan Wraith Cooler (blue: M1-torch-v4 ) Notice that the performance gains improve as the intensity of the workload increases. For video effects, the "High" setting sees a 3 0% improvement over standard thermal paste on the Single-Fan Stock Wraith Cooler, and a 7.6% improvement over an after-market Dual-Fan CoolMaster-212x . As the workload intensity increases to "Ultimate", the impact of the M1 Thermal Compound increases relative to the competition. This is also demonstrated by the gaming benchmark for Phoronix as well: In the case of the lower graphics test, the M1 sees a 29% performance gain over standard thermal paste on the Single-Fan Stock Wraith Cooler. The gains increase to 33% improvement as the workload intensity is pushed higher. The full Phoronix Benchmark Suite consists of 50 benchmarks, and Maxwell Lab's M1 Thermal Compound was shown to improve the performance of the Stock Wraith Cooler in 84% of these . In our testing, the Stock Wraith CPU cooler for AMD Ryzen 3400G could be made to out-perform even the after-market CoolMaster 212x solution simply by swapping out standard thermal paste for Maxwell Lab's M1 Thermal Compound. If you'd like to see the full report, reach out to
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