I guess you could, but what would you gain? You can't dissipate the heat until it reaches the heatsink anyway. And for bursty workloads you might not even kno

I guess you could, but what would you gain? You can't dissipate the heat until it reaches the heatsink anyway. And for bursty workloads you might not even know whether or not you're going to need it. The point of the thermal solution is just to keep the chip from throttling or destroying itself, and direct measurement is plenty quick enough to accomplish that.