

Otherwise: Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. So: if you are only seeing when the applications are busy doing heavy stuff, fine. Of course, if this is happening when the applications are not doing any heavy lifting, then it is cause for concern.

In that circumstance, the CPU generates a lot of heat and, therefore, the fans will work hard and noisily - which makes me eager to try the new M1 macs! So it is nothing strange if you see 1000% - that would be 10 cores fully utilized. Your mac has 8 physical cores, and due to to hyperthreading they appear as 16 "logical cores". I occasionally see it with FCP in some tasks. In most cases it just means that it is working. The fact that a professional application is using a lot of CPU may or may not be of concern. This last screenshot is when I watch a Youtube video: 375 1


I never had this issue before it just happened one day. I do not have any issues with safari (Which I did before I reset my mac) So it seems there is an issue with anything related with chromium (electron, brave.). I've tried reinstalling Catalina, at first it seemed to have solved my issue, and a day later I got the same issues. I changed my charging port from left to right, doesn't solve anything.Īlso when the CPU drop happens I have kernal_task at 200% or even more (800% the other day) and google chrome helper at 200% while at the same time my CPU frequency drop to 0.8.Īnd some times even after closing everything it take ages for my CPU clock to go back up. When I watch Youtube videos (or any video streaming website) or use any app that is a little intense like Figma (I'm talking about the desktop app) my CPU frequency drop to 0.8 even tho my temperature is around 60°c.Įven some webpages make my CPU frequency drop!Īnd some times it just drop for no reason what so ever. Since this week I have HUGE issues with my macbook pro 15 2017.
