Turbo performance on Laptop with active cooling support

[Xenon14]

Since turbo increases the TDP and therefore heat generated by the CPU, the processor ends up clocking down after the temperature envelope is breached. But what if your laptop is sitting on a cooling pad? Won't that allow the CPU to be in turbo mode for longer, thus enabling additional gains in performance?

It sounds right in theory, but have there been any benchmarks to test this in practice?

 

[Sleepingforest]

Only if the task takes long enough to require a long term turbo AND the temperature gets high enough to force throttling during that long turbo. That scenario is rare enough that it shouldn't matter.