Windows 11 has a “feature” that throttles performance, but disabling it has a security tradeoff
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It's rare that a security vulnerability affects a huge swath of processors all at once, but the Spectre vulnerabilities that were uncovered in 2018 were so widespread that they forced operating system vendors to trade performance for protection. Windows started carrying mitigations to protect against it that were on by default, and it did take sacrificing some CPU performance. They're still enabled by default today, and users can switch it off if they please with a simple registry tweak. Whether
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