At least with windows you can turn off turboboost and other such features that basically temporarily overclock the cpu beyond what the thermals are designed for

At least with windows you can turn off turboboost and other such features that basically temporarily overclock the cpu beyond what the thermals are designed for evidently. I had a late model intel mac that was horrible for this. Games would become unplayable because you'd have 30 seconds of reasonable FPS followed by 5 seconds of terrible awful drops then right back to reasonable fps. My 2012 era mac was better in this sense because the thermal design allowed the CPU to go all out at room temp, no throttling at all and consistent fps from the game (albeit low because of integrated graphics, but consistent nonetheless which is at least playable).