[nomel]

> If it's throttling to lower the temperature…

This gives the ability to go over 100% before thermals equalize, since max power would follow a Newton cooling curve.

[dataflow]

I don't follow. Whatever frequency the CPU is currently running at is a lower bound on the maximum frequency it could be running at, so it shouldn't exceed 100%?

[nomel]

But the thermals of the system means it can, for short periods of time, run much faster than long periods of time. I don't think a constantly changing 100%, that changes with temperature, is very useful. I would be more interested in whatever the sustainable 100% is, for normal room temperature.