Intel Turbo Boost is Intel's trade name for central processing units' (CPUs') dynamic frequency scaling feature that automatically raises certain versions of its operating frequency when demanding tasks are running, thus enabling a higher resulting performance.
Some motherboard vendors intentionally use values higher than Intel's default for performance, causing the processor to exceed its thermal design power (TDP).
Newer version Windows 10 and Linux kernel support Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Technology.
[9] An Intel November 2008 white paper[10] discusses "Turbo Boost" technology as a new feature incorporated into Nehalem-based processors released in the same month.
[11] A similar feature called Intel Dynamic Acceleration (IDA) was first available with Core 2 Duo, which was based on the Santa Rosa platform and was released on May 10, 2007.