One issue with cycles is that the results you will get may not reflect what end users, who probably have throtling enabled if it is made to run on laptops or desktop computers, will experience.

All instructions do not have the same thermal cost, and even though my laptop's CPU is able to stand at 3.99GHz when running stress tests whereas its base clock is 2.59GHz, I doubt it would be able to do the same if it was running AVX2 instructions (or it does have quite impressive thermals for a laptop).

Also, does disabling throtling disable dynamic frequency scaling of the CPU's cache too ?