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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 threadSheldanMar 8
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.
Show threaduntorquer

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.

Mar 8 at 9:46amWeb