> When Intel says their CPU can hit a given turbo frequency they mean it will actually hit that and stay there so long as power/temperature remains within limit

> When Intel says their CPU can hit a given turbo frequency they mean it will actually hit that and stay there so long as power/temperature remains within limits. Have you actually tried to do that? When Intel says their CPU can hit a Turbo frequency, it's usually pure fantasy because they can't actually do it within the power/temp constraints. Yes, they'll get to 5-whatever GHz on maybe half the cores if you're lucky, but full all-core load at the top stated Turbo? No chip will stay there, it will throttle down, likely by a lot. And AVX loads will bring it to, or close to, maximum non-turbo clocks, that's how hot they run. It could maybe be done with extremely good cooling and undervolting, and completely removing power limits (in which case it will probably consume close to 500W if it doesn't fry something first :D).