So, I did a Cinebench R23 benchmark just now (16", M1 Max, 64RAM), started with Low Power mode, ran it for 10:00:00 and the score was 10834, then, immediately, after this test, I ran it again, this time in High Power mode and **SHOCKER** it scored 12108.
So why is that? Why Corona does it backwards? We want performance the same way it is when running Cinebench - CPU at 99%, Low Power Mode uses less power and scores lower. High Power Mode ramps up the fans and scores higher! I can hear fan ramping up, because it is not letting it to throttle as you guys claim! CPU is at 98% as we speak. Why Corona is not ramping up fans the same way as Cinebench is?
Again, question - why you guys think that everyone else got it wrong (or are faking CPU usage of 100%) and you guys got it right? Numbers speak for themselves!
PS - I should also add there are other components on the motherboard that can thermal throttle too, e.g. when the CPU demands more power to work and parts of the board have to start supplying that extra juice, so overall design has to be good to ensure those can dissipate heat.
Either way, "starts faster in full power mode then gets slower than when in low power mode" is a sure sign of thermal throttling somewhere in the machine. The decision is then whether it's faster to have it run at max capacity for a while and then swap to something slower than low power mode, or just having it all in low power mode from the beginning - short renders may complete before throttling occurs, for instance, so you can just do those in full power; but very long ones may benefit from just starting in low power mode for final overall render times.