GE76 (12900HK) - unable to reach peak wattage/performance with CPU when benchmarking

I could care less about the cinebench score as long as I knew that my setup would perform to its best when I throw programs at it instead of bringing down wattage out of nowhere (thus reducing performance).

cinebench gets used a lot for benchmarking because it's able to make good use of all the power you can feed your cpu. it's not a very realistic target for more general use type scenarios; i'd say that the fact you're able to peg down their tuning is a pretty good indicator that you're getting everything you'd hope for, outside of rendering. (and who does serious rendering work on a lappy?)

...that said, my workstation is rockin' a 3700x and a nh-d15 and it just managed a 12980. goddang alderlake is badass.

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