[gruez]

>My personal laptop's CPU is Intel i7-9750H. I always run it with turbo boost disabled for predictable, sustained performance. Turbo boost is weird as in it can lead to a sub-par user experience (lag) when your processor throttles.

Does your laptop have such atrocious cooling that it can't sustain frequencies higher than base? When my laptop undergoes thermal throttling (ie. hits 95C), the frequency is still above the base frequency, so I'm still getting more performance than if turbo was disabled.

edit: tested with cinebench. On my laptop with intel cpu the sustained all-core turbo frequency is 45% higher than the base frequency. This is with throttlestop enabled, otherwise TDP/tau throttling kicks in first rather than thermal throttling.

[siddhant09]

It's a MSI-GF65 Thin which has excellent cooling. However with TB enabled both Ubuntu & Windows randomly starts a process (usually updates) which hits the CPU hard and consequently all the fans spin up.

At base clock, I see no visible loss in performance and a much quieter workstation.

The performance loss in compilation is offset by continuously compiling (watch) which I can do with TB disabled but not with TB enabled.

For gaming, I limit the turbo boost to 3.2Ghz and get a more consistent performance with no sudden drops.