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0 pointswmf3mo ago0 comments

A 9700X is twice the performance of a 9900K and M5 Max is almost 3X the performance. The megahertz myth is a myth.

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mikrl3mo ago· 2 in thread

I replied to the sibling comment: I was making simplifying assumptions for two specific use cases and naively treated physical cores and clock rate as my variables.

Aurornis3mo ago

Yes, but core count and clock speed of a nearly 10 year old CPU are meaningless when comparing to current processors.

joefourier3mo ago

But why? That's like trying to determine which car is faster by looking at only at the rpm.

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