You definitely have something weird going on here, as we don’t have this issue at all with 250 players
Here’s a chart from txAdmin with sync thread
So either (as bubble said) your host might be overselling CPU time or doing CPU cycle stealing
For reference the server this was taken from runs a Ryzen 7 3700x w/ 128gb of RAM, but this is still roughly the same graph we were getting forever ago running a Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 (roughly a 10 year old CPU) w/ 16GB DDR3 RAM