I think there are two parts to this. There are factors beyond clock rate; clock rate alone doesn’t give a full picture. Going from say 166 mHz to 1 gHz brings radical performance improvements without too many drawbacks, once you go above 3-4 gHz, the marginal increase in clock rates becomes increasingly expensive in terms of heat management.
I once made an incredibly limited cpu on paper, basically had the whole cpu in logic gate on a piece of paper. Tried to run the most basic programm on it by hand and i can assure you thet it was much slower than 166mhz XD
I think there are two parts to this. There are factors beyond clock rate; clock rate alone doesn’t give a full picture. Going from say 166 mHz to 1 gHz brings radical performance improvements without too many drawbacks, once you go above 3-4 gHz, the marginal increase in clock rates becomes increasingly expensive in terms of heat management.
Watch out for your prefixes, 166 mHz would be one operation every 6 seconds.
I don’t think there ever has been a CPU that slow ;-)
(small letter “g” doesn’t exist as a prefix, but could be easily confused as the unit gram-Hertz)
Haha )
I once made an incredibly limited cpu on paper, basically had the whole cpu in logic gate on a piece of paper. Tried to run the most basic programm on it by hand and i can assure you thet it was much slower than 166mhz XD