Soleron on 14 April 2009
| Deneidez said: I like amd and pheromones(especially sex ones)... Err... I mean... Seriously, its not about how much GHz there is. Its about how it can perform. Especially nowadays. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_Myth ) |
I know that. Clock speed is a useful way to compare CPUs of the same architecture though. So in this case it ought to be ~7% faster than the previous fastest quad-core Phenom II at 3GHz. Real-world figures will be slighthly less than theory, in this case it's +5% on average.
To compare across CPUs of different architectures all you can do is look at real-world figures from reviews. So in this case it would be about as fast as a 2.83GHz Core 2 Quad, or slighly slower than a 2.66GHz Core i7, or about as fast as a 3.6GHz original Phenom.
And it should beat 3.1GHz Athlon X2 by a 30% margin in single-thread apps and a lot more in 4+ threaded apps.
