I know this could be a difficult issue to solve as it involves a hardware technology(maybe Mac's CPU management as well) but if our VM can trigger Turbo Boost, our peak(period) performance can be boosted ~50%(the calculation is (3.8-2.5)/2.5). However, when I'm on PD Win VM, even if I build a big project in VS which consumes almost all CPU on the VM and consumes around 50-60% of CPU on the Mac(I allocate 4 logic cores to VM which is the recommended setting), Turbo boost is not triggered, CPU is running constantly in a frequency of 2.2-2.5 GHz, rarely goes to 3GHz. If I build a project in Android Studio, the CPU frequency goes up to 3.8GHz in my observation(don't know if it actually goes up to 4.1GHz, doesn't matter since it is at least boosted). It’s a great option for a high-end gaming PC, though it can’t be overclocked. It supports up to 64GB of DDR4 memory and 16 PCI Express lanes. When I'm using a Mac application, the turbo boost is always working. The Core i7-8700 is a 65W CPU, with 6 cores, 12 threads, 12MB of cache, and a max turbo frequency of 4.6GHz. On modern Intel CPUs, there's a built-in technology Turbo Boost which turns the clock speed up while we're on some heavy work and returns to a low frequency when the work is done or the CPU is going to overheat due to bad cooling(or work on a higher clock speed for too long).īefore I go into more detail, I'm testing(using) an MBP 2017 with this CPU '3.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz, with 8MB shared 元 cache'

I tried a simple google search and comes out nothing so I guess few have noticed about this potential issue that may make our VM perform slower than it could be.

How to enable turbo boost i7 mac