True. But it also gives irrelevant data when it does throttle. ie if you insist on no throttling when running CPUBurn you almost certainly WILL need extra cooling, whereas you can quite happily run a Pi4 without any extra cooling. So in that case it possibly making you buy more kit (heatsink, fan) you don't actually need for your ACTUAL use case.Imperf3kt wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:13 pmWhich is precisely why it is useful - if it won't throttle while doing that, it'll never throttle under sane workloads.jamesh wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:43 amI've said it before, but things like cpuburn are a pathological/extreme/very worst case. It's very rare to find that sort of workload on a device. It's loading up all four cores, with NEON running full tilt. Normal desktop use won't do that, or anything near it. The only use case I can think of that might get close,and still be relatively common, is a highly NEON optimised, multithreaded codec.
It's a bit like putting race brakes on a road car, because when someone did test on track, the road car overheated the brakes. But you only ever drive on the road....