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I stopped chasing clock speeds with my PC hardware — here's what actually matters

For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...
SlashGear

Does GPU Boost Clock Speed Matter, And Is It Worth The Extra Money?

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are a lot of components to pick out when you're building a PC, but one of the most important elements of gaming and digital rendering ...
ExtremeTech

New GPU Clock Speed Record Broken With Intel Integrated GPU

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eTeknix

The Clock Speed Lie: How AMD’s X3D CPUs Rewrote the Rules of Gaming

For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP ...