In addition to a new microprocessor architecture, a clock speed of 1.5 GHz is promised.
The fastest of the bunch is an Athlon XP chip with a clock speed of 1.53 GHz.
Clock speed is only one factor affecting processor performance, but it's one that consumers pay close attention to.
The 6990 boasts a massive 4GB of GDDR5, 3, 072 Stream Processors, 64 ROPs, and an 830MHz core clock speed.
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The first is organizational clock speed, which is: How can we really speed up the way that we execute?
And then there's the mysterious and often misunderstood processor clock speed, measured in megahertz, and now often in gigahertz.
Discussions on countless message boards and online forums are even more hyperbolic concerning the importance of the clock speed comparison.
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The clock speed hasn't changed either, but you're getting an extra core this time with the Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon chipset.
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Clock speed is also TBD, and the early silicon on demo at the show wasn't operating anywhere close to its top end.
The demonstration appeared to be designed to show just how much clock speed Intel may be able to squeeze out of its new chip design.
While the slightly faster clock speed may be a nice bragging right, at the end of the day Atom N470-based netbooks are still, well, netbooks.
Clock speed is only one measure of processor performance, but it's one that PC buyers -- especially consumers -- tend to pay close attention to.
For years, Intel and AMD dueled back and forth for control of the megahertz crown, implying that a higher clock speed equaled a better chip.
Clock speed is something akin to the pulse of your computer.
We weren't able to squeeze many details out of ARM reps, who remained mum about the demo components, including clock speed, manufacturer and even fabrication size.
As processes evolved, some things took root and so just changing the organizational clock speed from the status quo is going to be an important characteristic.
Inside, the machine runs an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 processor with a clock speed of 1.7 gigahertz.
As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked as if Apple's dual-core A6 processor was sporting a clock speed of around 1GHz.
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For those unfamiliar with the terminology, one gigahertz is equal to 1, 000 megahertz -- megahertz being the "clock speed" used to measure the basic performance of computer microprocessors.
Finally, on the plus side of his report card, Mr. Elop last year said he had "changed the clock speed of Nokia, " a view with which Mr. Wood agreed.
During early 2000, AMD was the first of the two to launch a chip with a clock speed of 1, 000 megahertz, or 1 gigahertz, a sort of industry milestone.
Reviewers agreed that its inclusion helped significantly improve single-threaded performance, to the point where the faster (in default clock speed) 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 was falling behind in benchmarks.
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Perhaps most importantly, analysts said, the new architecture should allow AMD to keep boosting the clock speed of Duron to keep pace with -- or even stay ahead of -- Intel's Celeron.
At times, it appeared as if the handset was revving up its clock speed from a sleepier state since transitions from the homescreen to app drawer and even app launches showcased a definite lag.
That'd be no big deal, perhaps, were it not for rival NVIDIA's benchmark-stealing GeForce GTX 680, which autonomously adjusts its clock speed on the fly and easily hits 1.2GHz under the right conditions.
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Inside there's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people )-made Pentium 4 processor, the clock speed of which hasn't yet been revealed--though HP says it will be faster than 2 gigahertz.
Things like the number of computer instructions per clock cycle, the bandwidth of the RAM bus, and the overall efficiency of the architecture are at least as important as the raw clock speed at which a processor runs.
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To call it a big jump would be an understatement: compared to the 8800M, the flagship 8970M chip doubles the stream processors to 1, 280, hikes the clock speed from 725MHz to 850MHz and bumps the memory speed slightly to 1.2GHz.
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