As procrastination from writing, I’m playing around with some CPU benchmarks on my i7-1185G7 now (my go-to for CPU monitoring is CoreFreq) and it is pretty much as it is labelled.
Heavy Multithread: If I run AtomicBurn through CoreFreq, all cores run at 4.290Ghz for a short while, until they thermal throttle down (hovers around 4.0Ghz, with temps in the high 70s/low 80s). If I run Prime95, it does throttle down a bit more (to about 3.1GhZ), with the temps the same as above.
Heavy Single Thread: Using the turbo round robin stress test on CoreFreq gets the real results on turbo (since the whole chip doesn’t get so hot) and I get 4.7Ghz turbo frequently, with the occasional jump up to 4.8Ghz as “on the tin”. One core gets quite hot (around 90), but it sustains the high turbo because the test jumps the work around the cores.
Most of the time power usage sits around 28W, but if the turbo is really going and I have a heavy multithread test going, I see power jump up to between 45 and 50W. But that’s only temporary, the wattage jumps back down to 28ish watts when it thermal throttles.
I have been seeing some of the weird performance governor issues with my machine, where sometimes when power is connected the CPU frequency absolutely tanks down to like 0.3Ghz when I run Prime95. I’ve only experienced this once, and it hasn’t happened again since. In this thread they are discussing that it might have to do with certain battery charge levels (and other threads have discussed issues with expansion cards), but Framework is exploring it so I’m not too worried (yet).