To disable Turbo Boost use sudo powers and set the switch no_turbo to 1: $ echo '1' | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo This is a double negative when 'no turbo' is off (=0) then Turbo Boost is on. Using the terminal you can check if Turbo Boost feature is enabled: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo Maximum frequency 3500 MHz (3.5 GHz) $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freqĬurrent frequency 1027.669 MHz (1.028 GHz) $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freqĬPU 0 to 7 Frequency when YouTube loads up $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freqĤ out of 8 processors are in turbo mode (above 2.6 GHz) CPU 0 to 7 Frequency when YouTube paused $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freqĪll processors are at minimum speed of 800 MHz even though Chrome is running on two screens with 11 tabs open but YouTube paused.

Minimum frequency 800 MHz $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq This Intel Skylake processor is rated to 2.6 GHz or 3.5 GHz with Turbo Boost enabled.

The frequency is expressed in MHz with three decimal places. Alternate CLI methodsīelow you can see frequencies for CPU Number 0. Accepted top voted answer doesn't always workĪs the second top voted answer pointed out, the top voted and accepted answer sometimes shows the maximum regular frequency.

How to enable turbo boost 2.0