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"7 GHz clock speed" When did the GHz race start again?
by pmontra 10mo ago
"7 GHz clock speed"
When did the GHz race start again?
- muro 10mo agoRumors = the author just made something up
- ziml77 10mo agoSimilarly: Leaks = the author just made something up, but now it ranks extra highly when someone searches for "[upcoming thing] leaks"
- Sohcahtoa82 10mo agoI hate the term "leak". It used to have meaning. Now, it's either a fancy term for "announcement", or people use it synonymously with "rumor".
- bikelang 10mo agoI remain quite skeptical of that. Maybe on a purpose built overclocking rig :^)
- kvemkon 10mo agoYeah, first of all we need to get 6 GHz with Zen 6.
- phire 10mo agoIt never stopped. Just takes backwards steps from time to time with major architectural innovations that deliver better performance at significantly lower clock speeds. Intel's last backwards step was from Pentium 4 to Core all the way back in ~2005. AMD's last backwards step was from Bulldozer (and friends) to Zen in 2017. 7GHz is ridiculous and probably just a false rumour, but IMO; Intel and AMD are probably due for another backwards step, they are exceeding the peek speeds from the P4/Bulldozer eras. And Apple has proved that you can get better performance at lower clock speeds.
- Hikikomori 10mo agoIntels plan for P4 was to scale to 10Ghz. Its always been a race but plans don't always work out.
- phire 10mo agoAnd IBM were planning for the PS3's cell processor to run at like 6ghz, with later versions scaling further. Though, it's not like Sony were planning to ship the PS3 clocked that high, they were just expecting their 3-4ghz cpu to run much cooler than it did. You can really see where the industry hit the wall with Dennard scaling.