useful for Intel laptops - also could allow for better performance out of certain intel chips and over all better thermal management. (anecdotally, I was able to get my Arc iGPU to comfortably mantain 900-1000mhz while gaming with thermald enabled, whereas pre having it installed my iGPU remained strongly throttled to 100-450mhz despite temps and power not being a limiting factor.)

On Linux, the equivalent to this is thermald. When installed and enabled on your system, it reads the same OEM configuration data from ACPI as the windows DPTF driver and is also able to scale up your package TDP threshold past the BIOS default as per the OEM configuration. You can also write your own configuration files if you really wish but you do so at your own risk.
https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/blog/2020/11/getting-the-most-out-of-your-intel/

Also feels important to mention that Fedora Workstation ships thermald out of the box.