Hi, for completeness please provide also these infos, maybe to see if there are some odd configurations: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/ max_perf_pct min_perf_pct no_turbo num_pstates turbo_pct I'm assuming that you have no special kernel parameters set ? On my system, which don't show this problem, it looks like : cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct 100 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct 31 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/num_pstates 27 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo 0 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/turbo_pct 4 The reference explanation (also for the correlation of intel_pstate with cpufreq) you can find on https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt . One thing i should mention for my systems, that i use tuned to set a cpu/energy profile. This isn't the default for a clean installation.