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Clock speed: The overrated PC spec you can ignore

This all applies to GPUs as well. The architecture, which includes things like memory bandwidth or cache hierarchy, impacts gaming way more than how high the component's clock speed is. A GPU with a ...
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It's not just clock speed: Here's what makes one CPU better than another

When you're comparing two of the best CPUs, the first spec that comes to mind is clock speed. It quite literally represents how fast the CPU can churn through clock cycles, and naturally, you'd assume ...