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PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

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Show threadSheldan
Isnt it that at some point the GHz just aren’t useful anymore or rather not physically possible. I think they abandoned it for a good reason.
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Show threadRekall IncorporatedMar 8
I think there are two parts to this. There are factors beyond clock rate; clock rate alone doesn’t give a full picture. Going from say 166 mHz to 1 gHz brings radical performance improvements without too many drawbacks, once you go above 3-4 gHz, the marginal increase in clock rates becomes increasingly expensive in terms of heat management.
Show threadMultiplexerMar 8

Watch out for your prefixes, 166 mHz would be one operation every 6 seconds.
I don’t think there ever has been a CPU that slow ;-)

(small letter “g” doesn’t exist as a prefix, but could be confused as the unit gram-Hertz)

Show threadRekall IncorporatedMar 8
Haha )
Show threadpolotypeMar 8
I once made an incredibly limited cpu on paper, basically had the whole cpu in logic gate on a piece of paper. Tried to run the most basic programm on it by hand and i can assure you thet it was much slower than 166mhz XD
Show threaduntorquerMar 8

You get rate limited by cache. The literal physical distance between cache(3) (tiny ram(s) in the processor) and processor can’t be zero. So those signals must travel over a distance at the speed of conduction. Having multiple processors allows tasks to be done simultaneously, effectively multiplying processing speed.

But more speed is particularly useful with bad/legacy software(single thread). SolidWorks is a good example.