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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 41 minutes ago

It's not permanently running at max frequency. It's raising it as needed, which is exactly the point of having variable frequency. Generally the user can provide guidelines for the cpu governor to control or guide its behavior according to power, performance, and thermal constraints. I think Windows has power plan modes for this.