curl-6 said:
As someone not too familiar with CPUs, how does this make them fare aginst each other power wise, wth the Gamecube's CPU clocked at 485MHz and the Xbox one at 733MHz?
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Those are indeed the clock rates but what most peopel don't understand is that different processors handle different amounts of work per clock cycle. Think of it like what I am going to show you below. The numbers are purely for example and do not perfectly reflect their actual capabilites.
Xbox @ 733 Mhz * 2 operations per clock cycle = 1.466 billion operations per second.
GC @ 485 Mhz * 4 operations per clokc cycle = 1.940 billion operations per second.
As you can see, even though the GC has a lower clock rate, it could still do more work in a given time interval.
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