THE:MILKMAN
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It depends if a brief boost in some/all cores allows the chip to race units to sleep earlier and that means they stay asleep for longer then you are actually saving power overall, but yeah you need to tolerate those spikes.
It would be nice if Sony/Mark Cerny could flesh this out and make base/boost work generally. I'm basing my doubt on how Mark Cerny answered Richard leadbetter's question about changing/upgrading the CPU in Pro (because hey, it x86 right!) and how timing (clock speed) really messed things up. And that was in relation to PS4 never mind the even more architecturally different Navi/Zen PS5 will likely be.
If they have figured these issues out then that will be great of course.