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#1 2025-11-05 17:46:47

tiantian
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Registered: 2025-11-05
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Ultra7 265K's Efficiency cores are showing an incorrect MAXMHZ of 6.5G

As the title says, `lscpu` shows that two of my Efficiency cores have a maximum frequency limit of 6.5 GHz (core 12 and core 13).
I'm unsure whether this is merely a display issue or a potential warning sign of hardware damage, so I'd like to consult the Arch Linux community.

 lscpu -e 

Output:

CPU NODE SOCKET CORE L1d:L1i:L2:L3 ONLINE    MAXMHZ   MINMHZ       MHZ
  0    0      0    0 0:0:0:0          yes 5400.0000 800.0000 2918.6790
  1    0      0    1 4:4:1:0          yes 5500.0000 800.0000 2986.8110
  2    0      0    2 16:16:4:0        yes 5500.0000 800.0000 3764.1101
  3    0      0    3 20:20:5:0        yes 5400.0000 800.0000 4115.9512
  4    0      0    4 24:24:6:0        yes 5400.0000 800.0000  800.0000
  5    0      0    5 28:28:7:0        yes 5400.0000 800.0000 1217.8080
  6    0      0    6 40:40:10:0       yes 5400.0000 800.0000 1167.6000
  7    0      0    7 44:44:11:0       yes 5400.0000 800.0000  800.0000
  8    0      0    8 3:0              yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2300.3960
  9    0      0    9 26:26:3:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000  999.9490
 10    0      0   10 3:0              yes 4600.0000 800.0000  997.7910
 11    0      0   11 30:30:3:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2247.9351
 12    0      0   12 64:64:8:0        yes 6500.0000 800.0000  800.0000
 13    0      0   13 66:66:8:0        yes 6500.0000 800.0000  800.0000
 14    0      0   14 68:68:8:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 1975.0000
 15    0      0   15 70:70:8:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2615.4470
 16    0      0   16 72:72:9:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2645.8669
 17    0      0   17 74:74:9:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2301.0510
 18    0      0   18 76:76:9:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2300.6040
 19    0      0   19 78:78:9:0        yes 4600.0000 800.0000 2593.3330

I couldn't clearly distinguish the P-cores from the E-cores in the output above, so I searched online and learned that P-cores and E-cores are differentiated by their highest_perf score. To that end, I printed the relevant information from my system.

for i in `seq 0 19`; do echo "$i => $(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/acpi_cppc/highest_perf) => $(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq)Hz"; done

Output:

0 => 87 => 5400000Hz
1 => 88 => 5500000Hz
2 => 88 => 5500000Hz
3 => 87 => 5400000Hz
4 => 87 => 5400000Hz
5 => 87 => 5400000Hz
6 => 87 => 5400000Hz
7 => 87 => 5400000Hz
8 => 65 => 4600000Hz
9 => 65 => 4600000Hz
10 => 65 => 4600000Hz
11 => 65 => 4600000Hz
12 => 65 => 6500000Hz
13 => 65 => 6500000Hz
14 => 65 => 4600000Hz
15 => 65 => 4600000Hz
16 => 65 => 4600000Hz
17 => 65 => 4600000Hz
18 => 65 => 4600000Hz
19 => 65 => 4600000Hz

Looking at the information above, cores 12 and 13 should be E-cores, yet their max_freq is listed as 6.5 GHz—well above the Ultra 7 265K's official maximum.
I ran a stress test on core 12 and it never actually reached 6.5 GHz.

taskset -c 12 stress -c 1 & sudo turbostat --quiet --show Core,CPU,Bzy_MHz

Output:

[1] 23132
stress: info: [23132] dispatching hogs: 1 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3892
0       0       1440
4       1       2247
12      8       4388
13      9       4059
14      10      4321
15      11      4228
16      2       2119
20      3       2358
24      4       1985
28      5       2486
32      12      4581
33      13      4454
34      14      4520
35      15      4509
36      16      4496
37      17      3819
38      18      3449
39      19      3895
40      6       2421
44      7       1397
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3880
0       0       1627
4       1       2073
12      8       4389
13      9       4217
14      10      4345
15      11      4247
16      2       1979
20      3       2223
24      4       1711
28      5       2128
32      12      4573
33      13      4591
34      14      4562
35      15      4513
36      16      4205
37      17      3542
38      18      4332
39      19      4421
40      6       2121
44      7       1734
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3844
0       0       1842
4       1       2270
12      8       4324
13      9       4016
14      10      3937
15      11      4244
16      2       2396
20      3       2283
24      4       1990
28      5       1935
32      12      4578
33      13      4525
34      14      4546
35      15      4461
36      16      4105
37      17      3021
38      18      3840
39      19      4454
40      6       2227
44      7       1695
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3813
0       0       1280
4       1       2140
12      8       4180
13      9       4393
14      10      4288
15      11      4296
16      2       2226
20      3       2084
24      4       1553
28      5       1425
32      12      4578
33      13      4461
34      14      4339
35      15      4293
36      16      3727
37      17      3079
38      18      3669
39      19      3627
40      6       1754
44      7       2382
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3865
0       0       1647
4       1       2229
12      8       4368
13      9       4181
14      10      4168
15      11      4284
16      2       2391
20      3       2984
24      4       2065
28      5       2037
32      12      4580
33      13      4459
34      14      4535
35      15      4505
36      16      4085
37      17      3945
38      18      4218
39      19      3613
40      6       1412
44      7       2218
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3933
0       0       2424
4       1       2449
12      8       4214
13      9       3743
14      10      4265
15      11      4334
16      2       2523
20      3       2727
24      4       2083
28      5       1546
32      12      4577
33      13      4413
34      14      4473
35      15      4381
36      16      3816
37      17      3722
38      18      4087
39      19      3846
40      6       1264
44      7       1637
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3980
0       0       2205
4       1       2440
12      8       4323
13      9       4211
14      10      4238
15      11      3549
16      2       2491
20      3       2317
24      4       1774
28      5       1486
32      12      4578
33      13      4499
34      14      4529
35      15      4554
36      16      4279
37      17      3765
38      18      3774
39      19      4258
40      6       3573
44      7       1815
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3888
0       0       1009
4       1       1962
12      8       4397
13      9       4419
14      10      4303
15      11      4202
16      2       2023
20      3       1919
24      4       1753
28      5       1171
32      12      4575
33      13      4550
34      14      4548
35      15      4574
36      16      4164
37      17      3493
38      18      4172
39      19      4021
40      6       1768
44      7       2025
Core    CPU     Bzy_MHz
-       -       3908
0       0       2122
4       1       1889
12      8       4397
13      9       4388
14      10      4363
15      11      4416
16      2       2111
20      3       2231
24      4       1524
28      5       1318
32      12      4579
33      13      4561
34      14      4537
35      15      4522
36      16      4168
37      17      3689
38      18      3797
39      19      4172
40      6       1382
44      7       1558

Last edited by tiantian (2025-11-06 14:51:06)

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