The OS matters, and I would guess you were using two different OSes? I have no doubt macOS running on an m1 is more optimized than whatever you were using on the ryzen.

I recently had to remove Windows completely from a few years old laptop with an 12th gen cpu and a Intel Iris / GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile combo because it was running very hot (90c+) and the fans were constantly running. Running Linux, I have no issues. I just double checked since I had not for several months, and temperature is 40c lower on my lap than it was propped up on a book for maximum airflow. Full disclaimer, I would have done this anyways, but the process was sped up because my wife was extremely annoyed with the noise my new-to-me computer was making, and it was cooking the components.

I have learned to start with the OS when things are tangibly off, and only eventually come back to point the finger at my hardware.

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ashirviskas 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

OS does matter, with Linux my M1 macbook gets kinda hot and it cannot do more than 1.5-2h of google meetings with cameras on. IIRC google meetings on macos were at least a bit more efficient.

Though it has definitely been getting better in the last 1.5 years using Asahi Linux and in some areas it is a better experience than most laptops running Linux (sound, cameras, etc.). The developers even wrote a full fledged physical speaker simulator just so it could be efficiently driven over its "naive" limits.

	▲	sgc 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That is more a "who is controlling access to hardware drivers matters" problem. I wouldn't be surprised if macOS was still a tiny bit more efficient with a level playing field, but we will never know.

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petrichorko 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Linux can definitely help with this, I had the same experience with it on Z1 (SteamOS). But even running Windows 11 in a VM on M1 does not make the machine run hot