How to preserve cpupower-gui settings?

Are the frequencies configured using cpupower-gui saved to cpupower configuration?

cat /etc/default/cpupower

What is status of cpupower.service?

systemctl -l status cpupower.service

And are frequencies being changed by an active tlp.service?

systemctl -l status tlp.service

What is changing my cpupower governor?
CPU governor randomly switching to powersave thus heavily limiting performance