No throttling as far as I can tell. When using 16 virtual cores at 100%, each core tops at about 3Ghz (probably due to power limits). Temps creep up to about 68, fan goes on, and it stays there.

That's good to hear. I'm used to laptops having terrible cooling, and suffering through processor throttling when doing anything other than browsing the web. I'm guessing that performance is a function of AMD's all around better power draw and thermals.

Same here. All my Intel laptops in the last 10 years have had awful cooling, hit 90+ and throttle. So I was really surprised at the AMD performance.

why should it?

At least with the mobile Intel processors I'm familiar with, things like Turbo Boost get disabled and the cores will be scaled down in order to bring temperatures down. I figured AMD would do something similar, but I have no experience with their mobile processors.

According to Wikipedia, AMD's Turbo Core feature depends on power draw, while Precision Boost and Extended Frequency Range features depends on power and temperature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Turbo_Core

sure thing.

was refering to the figure of 68°C which i consider very low and hence asking the question "why would the thermal management enact any limits at that temperature?"