> Doesn't prioritising efficiency and thermals make sense for any device? No. If you have the cooling to sustain the higher power mode it can be worth it to pa

> Doesn't prioritising efficiency and thermals make sense for any device? No. If you have the cooling to sustain the higher power mode it can be worth it to pay the power bill to get work done faster. Compared to the productivity gains for compute limited workloads the increased power bill is little more than a rounding error or even a net power saving because you need less supporting infrastructure per worker to accomplish the same assuming that the tasks are even efficiently parallelizable to multiple (human) workers.