Megahertz myth
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title:
Megahertz myth
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The megahertz myth, or in more recent cases the gigahertz myth, refers to the misconception of only using clock rate to compare the performance of different microprocessors. While clock rates are a valid way of comparing the performance of different speeds of the same model and type of processor, other factors such as an amount of execution units, pipeline depth, cache hierarchy, branch prediction, and instruction sets can greatly affect the performance when considering different processors. For
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Usage of mere clock rate to compare performance of microprocessors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
date created:
2005-06-22T15:28:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T21:18:56Z
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