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It's not just clock speed: Here's what makes one CPU better than another

When you're comparing two of the best CPUs, the first spec that comes to mind is clock speed. It quite literally represents how fast the CPU can churn through clock cycles, and naturally, you'd assume ...
Digital Trends

Has clock speed outlived its usefulness as a processor specification?

There was once a time when a processor ran at a single, set clock speed. It ran at that speed all day, every day, unless it was purposely over or under-clocked by a user. In this simpler time there ...
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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 ...
Macworld

First M3 benchmarks show higher clock speeds, not cores, boosting performance

The very first Geekbench 6 benchmarks of the MacBook Pro with M3 processor have started to appear in the Geekbench 6 database. What they show is a processor whose higher CPU performance is almost ...