(Oh, this is fun! I haven't done this in a looooong time!) Unmeasurable? Like, you would have had to run an actual editing, encoding, rendering, or simulation

(Oh, this is fun! I haven't done this in a looooong time!) Unmeasurable? Like, you would have had to run an actual editing, encoding, rendering, or simulation task to measure it, but you only had the skills to read how many GHz were on the box, so you personally were unable to measure it? I suppose I'd have to hand you that one. How well did the "clock speed is all that matters" rhetoric age over the last decade? When was the last time that Intel's claimed perf boost wasn't IPC driven? My favorite part of this story is fifteen years later, when Intel's CEO says: We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino makes LOOOOOOOL! Whipped at CPU design (and manufacture -- who pays for those new kingmaking TSMC nodes?) by a company that doesn't even specialize in it. Whipped so badly that they have to admit it, even to themselves. Ouch!