{"id":1195,"date":"2011-10-20T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2012-10-17T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:56:58","slug":"ask-ars-whats-the-relationship-between-cpu-clockspeed-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ars: what&#8217;s the relationship between CPU clockspeed and performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Question: Intel&#8217;s Sandy Bridge launch just brought its desktop CPU line up to 3.8GHz, but I remember that the Pentium 4 got up to 3.8GHz before being cancelled. So why is it that Sandy Bridge is just now getting to the clock speed levels that the Pentium 4 was at years ago? And how is it that Sandy Bridge still manages to outperform the older Pentium 4, even though it has a lower clock speed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ask-ars\/2011\/04\/ask-ars-whats-the-relationship-between-cpu-clockspeed-and-performance.ars\">Ask Ars: what&#8217;s the relationship between CPU clockspeed and performance?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Intel&#8217;s Sandy Bridge launch just brought its desktop CPU line up to 3.8GHz, but I remember that the Pentium 4 got up to 3.8GHz before being cancelled. So why is it that Sandy Bridge is just now getting to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[114,292],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-computer-architecture","tag-cpu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}