That example is very actually very good one. It has been known for years that megahertz are a terrible metric to measure CPU performance. The peak of that disc

That example is very actually very good one. It has been known for years that megahertz are a terrible metric to measure CPU performance. The peak of that discussion was during the launch of Pentium 4, where it was proven that the IPC was much worse when comparing to a previous Pentium even though it had a lot more the clock speed. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 (Microarchitecture)