high performance mode.

[Carlos Thwaites]

Hi all I've recently discovered this mode and I've read a little about it but all it says is it boosts the cpu. Is there any info on if it overclocks the cpu or changes the governer or what?

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[kronosqq]

My understanding is that it doesn't overclock but it unlocks the full normal potential. I think it's generally underclocked a bit in some areas to keep battery performance up.

 

[Deathunter-M8]

The M8 is already fast without the high performance mode, so why do you need it to be any faster?! Anyway, keep in mind that if you activated that mode it will rapidly drain your battery.

Side Note:-
I think that activating the high performance mode will make the 4 cores running all the time.

Sent from my HTC One M8

 

[Carlos Thwaites]

I don't want to activate it as like u said the m8 is a really fast phone and it would be stupid to turn it on just for a little boost. I was just really curious as I spotted it when in developer options and didn't bother touching it. I guess for a few more bragging rights on antutu, quadrant ect it would be interesting but I did antutu on my m8 after the lollipop update and already gets just under 47000 anyway and that's without the hpm turned on

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[sniffs]

Normally your CPU throttles up and down with load.. so whatever the M8 CPU is, 2.2Ghz? if you're just reading email, you don't need the full 2.2Ghz, so it throttles down, to say 300-600Mhz because 1. it's less heat and 2. less battery usage.

I'm pretty certain that using High Performance Mode, turns off throttling and makes sure your CPU is always stuck at 2.2Ghz.. so in a sense, you'll get better performance probably, but you'll generate more heat and your battery will die quicker.

Running email and it'll throttle down.. Run a game/bench mark and it'll throttle up.. if you turn on HPM, it should turn off that throttling.