Large-N thermal QCD laboratories like strongly coupled QGP (sQGP) require not only a large t'Hooft coupling but also a finite gauge coupling [1]. Unlike almost all top-down holographic models in the literature, holographic large-N thermal QCD models based on this assumption, therefore necessarily require addressing this limit from M theory. Using the UV-complete top-down type IIB holographic dual of large-N thermal QCD as constructed in [2] involving a fluxed resolved warped deformed conifold, its delocalized type IIA S(trominger)-Y(au)-Z(aslow) mirror as well as its M-theory uplift constructed in [3], in [4], the type IIB background of [2] was shown to be thermodynamically stable. We also showed that the temperature dependence of DC electrical conductivity mimics a one-dimensional Luttinger liquid, and the requirement of the Einstein relation (ratio of electrical conductivity and charge susceptibility equal to the diffusion constant) to be satisfied requires a specific dependence of the Ouyang embedding parameter on the horizon radius. Any strongly coupled medium behaves like a fluid with interesting transport properties. In [5], we addressed these properties by looking at the scalar, vector and tensor modes of metric perturbations and solve Einstein's equation involving appropriate gauge-invariant combination of perturbations as constructed in [6]. Due to finite string coupling, we obtained the speed of sound, the shear mode diffusion constant and the shear viscosity η (and η s ) upto (N)ext to (L)eading (O)rder in N. The NLO terms in each of the coefficients serve as a the non-conformal corrections to the conformal results.Another interesting result for the temperature dependence of the thermal (and elec-1