
My max core clock is 5050 MHz but my max effective core clock is only about 4850 MHz, is this normal?
I also notice a difference of about 20 MHz between the current core clock and current effective core clock.
I took this screenshot while running Cinebench r24 (PBO at -20). I read about clock stretching and disabled PBO to see if anything changed but the difference between the clocks was identical.

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This is normal for heavy all core load. Single cores will boost higher. Small deviation between normal clocks and effective are also normal.
Also for more accurate reading activate snapshot polling in hwinfo