CentOS 7 cpupower not setting the CPU's to maximum

On my machine, i have power savings disable on the BIOS. When I run Ubuntu on this machine, the CPU's are running maximum at 2100 MHz. However, when I'm running CentOS 7, even with the scaling governor set to "performance", the CPU's are not running full at 2100 MHz. cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance performance performance performance grep -i mhz /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 1688.285 cpu MHz : 2058.656 cpu MHz : 1622.988 cpu MHz : 2070.632 My application is a network processing application, so the CPU clock difference is resulting a performance difference. I do not have cpuspeed,powerd, or any other power regulating services running. So my question is, is this expected behavior given the cpupower is set to "perform"? It seems CentOS is override the BIOS setting. When I boot to Ubuntu, it just takes the BIOS settings and all the CPU's are running max.