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What does ghz have to do with performance across chips? I’m reminded of the old days where AMD chips ran at a lower ghz and outperformed Intel chips running muc
by matwood 6y ago
What does ghz have to do with performance across chips? I’m reminded of the old days where AMD chips ran at a lower ghz and outperformed Intel chips running much faster. Intel had marketed that ghz === faster so AMD had to work to get around existing biases.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoEven Intel had to fight against it when they transitioned from the P4 designs to Core. They began releasing much lower clocked chips in the same product matrix and it took a while for people to finally accept that frequency is a poor metric for comparing across even the same company’s designs. And I think Apple also significantly contributed to this problem in the mid-late PPC days with “megahertz myth” marketing coupled with increasingly obvious misleading performance claims.