Processor Speed
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nixgeek
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Well, it's obvious that if you just look at processor speed, then the CPU that's 3.06 GHz would be faster than the one running at 1.6 GHz. However, in the real world you have to account for various other things such as system bus speed, RAM speed, CPU cache, overall OS speed, etc. This is why clock speed only is not the best determinator for how fast a computer is.
Mikuro
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3060MHz = 3.06 GHz.
I'm guessing these two systems do not use the same kind of processor. Comparing different kinds of processors directly based on clock speed is not generally useful. For instance, a 2GHz Core 2 Solo would be much faster than a 2GHz Pentium 4. AMD's chips are generally faster MHz-for-MHz than Intel's (or at least they used to be).
I'm guessing these two systems do not use the same kind of processor. Comparing different kinds of processors directly based on clock speed is not generally useful. For instance, a 2GHz Core 2 Solo would be much faster than a 2GHz Pentium 4. AMD's chips are generally faster MHz-for-MHz than Intel's (or at least they used to be).