We can continue to pretend throttling isn't a thing
You can if you want, I guess? I certainly never did. If A10X still ends up above the 7th gen consoles and the Switch (and it certainly does) after it throttles, what's the problem with my statement?
If you looked at the A10X throttling tests available on Ars/others, you'd know it still ends up well above the Switch TX1 at Switch clocks in end performance. Even the previous iPhone 7s CPU throttled very little, in a tiny phone chassis, and the tablets always did better.
Take the stable baseline of the A11 or A10X and I assure you it's above the 7th gen + Switch. 10nm drastically improves performance per watt as well. This was the 16nm year old iPhone 7 and that was already close, AFTER the throttling after half an hour, A11 will definitely be above.
And most definitely the A10X in a tablet.
This was the even older A8
The Switch, conversely, chose its clocks from where TX1 never throttles down below - the TX1 in the Shield interestingly settled around those clocks on extreme load. So as a console of course they go for the stable performance.