It's all about the "With enough thermal headroom". If this isn't specified in the benchmark, then the benchmark is useless because you can't compare with your s

It's all about the "With enough thermal headroom". If this isn't specified in the benchmark, then the benchmark is useless because you can't compare with your setup. It's even truer in laptops, but this is true of servers and desktops as well. In addition, recent CPUs will use this thermal headroom to the limit.