[mackmgg]

I've always turned off Turbo Boost on my Intel laptops anyway, because of the heat/battery hit. If I was doing something that I really wanted the extra speed and I was plugged in, I would turn it back on for that task, but I never really felt I was missing anything by having it off.

Considering how easy it is to turn on/off (on macOS at least I used Turbo Boost Switcher which added a button in the menu bar to toggle it) I don't think you would have a noticeable performance hit by keeping it off except when you need it.

[bayindirh]

Turbo Boost is not something you can reliably kick in any load spike due to its operation being constrained by the thread and thermal load of the CPU. Also, it's affected by the CPU instructions you're already running. AVX family is esp. power-heavy and thermal-heavy.