- Apple’s new MacBook Air (M4) seems only to use efficiency nuclei in Adobe Lightroom Classic
- All performance nuclei are inactive during tests
- We do not know if it is a bug or something that apple
It is not a secret for anyone that the new macbook air of Apple offers fantastic performance to consumers thanks to its powerful M4 chip, from $ 999 / £ 999 / $ 1,699 at – but there are reports that its performance when using a photo retouching program are being waterproofing, although perhaps for a good reason.
Spotted by Vadim Yuryev (from a popular Max Tech channel on YouTube), the MacBook Air (M4) seems only to use the six efficiency cores instead of performance cores in Adobe Lightroom Classic (a photo editing program), as the WCCFTECH points out. It is a high intensity application that (hypothetically) should require the use of performance nuclei to maximize productivity – but Yuryev implies that there is a positive aspect despite the fact that the four performance nuclei are inactive.
The implementation of performance nuclei for efficiency nuclei will ultimately extend the battery life and lower temperatures, although potentially at the cost of slower treatment. Yuryev does not explain whether this has a considerable impact or not of speeds when using the program, but indicates that it will help the battery life during its load.
It is not exactly clear if it is a bug or something that Apple provided with the M4 – Yuryev model compared the use of the M4 processor with the M3 using Lightroom Classic, and the second successfully uses eight of its CPU nuclei, so it is probably not a bug with the program itself, but potentially a problem with the way the new macbook use M4.
Although the MacBook Air (M4) can indeed work well in Lightroom Classic without using performance cores, it does not guarantee that other intense applications in the processor will have the same result when you rely on efficiency nuclei. In other heavy workload tasks, I hoped at least that all performance nuclei are fully used.
If this is planned by Apple, it would be great if we obtained more performance options for specific programs
Energy efficiency is excellent and everything, but that comes out of the window if the performance sacrifice is too important, because if the processor performance nuclei are inactive during intensive tasks, this could really have an impact on how certain applications (including the growing number of compatible Mac games) work on the brand new laptop.
Again, it is a big ‘If “as we do not know what makes performance nuclei remain asleep in classic CPU statistics Adobe Lightroom in Yuryev – but I hope that if it is intentional, users obtain the possibility of changing between the use of performance and efficiency nuclei in the programs (stay in mind, you can already modify the performance mode of your system).
It is certainly good to make the most of the duration of the life of the battery of the new MacBook Air, and a large majority of this is due to fleas based on M and their architecture based on the arms (also obvious with the laptops Snapdragon X Elite).
I hope that we will have more clarity on what is happening here in due time, although it should be emphasized that during our time examining the new MacBook Air M4 in configurations of 13 inch and 15 inch, we have not noticed any major impact on performance.
