Come on. We're not comparing 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz here. We're comparing 66MHz and 3500MHz. That difference is significant regardless of execution ports and other m

Come on. We're not comparing 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz here. We're comparing 66MHz and 3500MHz. That difference is significant regardless of execution ports and other micro-architectural details. I'm not saying that the Core 2 Quad is 50x more powerful because it has 50x the Hz, or that the Core 2 Quad is 200x more powerful because it has 4x the cores @ 50x the Hz, or that it's 1024x more powerful because it has 1024x the cache, or anything like that. I'm trying to illustrate the extreme evolution of the microprocessor from the early 90s to the late '00s.