As someone who has literally been running thermal tests against a random Android device for days (note: not as an expert in hardware, but as someone writing sof

As someone who has literally been running thermal tests against a random Android device for days (note: not as an expert in hardware, but as someone writing software that is causing the device to overheat), analyzing at all of the temperature sensor and power regulator debug information in spreadsheets while varying the workload, it isn't even remotely surprising to me that pegging a single core (which was the point of this benchmark) might not generate enough heat to cause thermal throttling but running a multi-threaded multi-core workload might.