Soleron on 01 December 2012
| keroncoward said: Does it matter if its not 3.2GHz like the 360? Clock speed is becoming irrelevant in this day and age. Architecture is more important |
Power consumption is the primary constraint these days. For phones, tablets, consoles, laptops and servers, companies design around a thermal maximum and then choose the best processor for their application within it.
Clockspeed is one tradeoff you can make against power. Architecture (instruction order, core width, threading, pipeline depth) is another. In 2011 AMD chose to make a high 4GHz clockspeed the primary design goal at the expense of core width (and not power).
