I must have forgotten to put up the results. Now updated.
The fan behaviour from a “fan curve” perspective is very similar (across the board I should say). The difference is with PPD set to ‘power-saver’, for all-core load the temps seem to be lower, settling around 70-72C with lower peak fan RPM. This is likely due to profile policy on CPU frequency. With PPD “disabled” the average CPU frequency would settle at around 3.3GHz in the above experiments, whereas with “power-saver” it would settle around 2.2GHz which would explain the difference in Tctl.
This does seem to be the case. I did not look too much into it and only added the link to the post for completion, rather than any criticism. There’s a lot of useful links in other threads that discuss the EC configuration and thermals, though most seem to be Intel related.
I did get the following readout from ectool thermalget:
sensor warn high halt fan_off fan_max name
0 343 353 393 313 343 local_f75303@4d
1 343 353 393 319 327 cpu_f75303@4d
2 343 353 393 401 401 ddr_f75303@4d
3 381 388 400 376 378 cpu@4c
(all temps in degrees Kelvin)
[for cpu@4c: 376K ~ 103C; 378K ~ 105C]
Which is in line with the EC config and what you are saying.