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I stopped chasing clock speeds with my PC hardware — here's what actually matters

For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...
Hackaday

Clock Runs Computer In Slow-Motion

At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...
eTeknix

The Clock Speed Lie: How AMD’s X3D CPUs Rewrote the Rules of Gaming

For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP ...
HotHardware

GeForce RTX 5090 Rumored For A Massive Base Clock Speed Increase Over 4090

Most of the leaks and rumors pointing to NVIDIA's eventual GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card suggest it's going to be an absolute monster of a GPU. The latest one is no exception—according to Panzerlied ...