Quote Originally Posted by flyck View Post
But every program that will exceed a certain power will be capped on the 69xx series. So either you tested with powertune set on +20% or something else is scewed in your test.
Nope. PowerTune only caps when the infered TDP reaches a certain point. If a program doesn't allow the core to each that point, PT won't kick in.

It is completely possible that the program I use pushes TDP closer to the PT barrier that what Anand and some other sites use.