Slight (and somewhat related, even) throwback to when (desktop) CPUs' primarily marketed performance indicator was their core frequency (i.e. "how many MHz a CP

Slight (and somewhat related, even) throwback to when (desktop) CPUs' primarily marketed performance indicator was their core frequency (i.e. "how many MHz a CPU has"), which also got divorced from reality over time. First bus and core frequency got separated, with bus frequency growing significantly slower and getting advertised much less, then the designation got at times decoupled entirely from frequency. For instance a Cyrix 6x86 PR166+ ran at 133Mhz but exhibited "comparable performance" to competitors' 166MHz CPUs, or later the Athlon XP 1500+ that ran at 1333MHz.