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kkeiper1103 t1_j43ghgb wrote

Reply to comment by r_golan_trevize in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek

Lol isn't that completely linear? 1mhz to 3 ghz is the same difference as 3ghz to 6ghz.

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r_golan_trevize t1_j43gw21 wrote

6ghz is twice as fast as 3ghz

3ghz is three thousand times as fast as 1mhz.

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kkeiper1103 t1_j43hcdi wrote

Yeah, but there's 3 ghz difference between both of them. Kinda like like 30mph is 30x as fast as 1mph, but 30-1 is 29 and 60-30 is 30.

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r_golan_trevize t1_j43iuyt wrote

Yeah, that's one way to look at it and it is kind of neat that it splits the difference but the relative speed difference between 1~4.77mhz 6502s, Z80s and 8086s and the 3mhz Pentium 4s and their contemporaries is way more profound and impressive.

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professorDissociate t1_j44qbox wrote

> 6ghz is twice as fast as 3ghz > > 3ghz is three thousand times as fast as 1mhz. > > s

2/3000=0.00066…

0.00066…*2=0.00133…

6+0.00133…=6.00133…

All I can say is I hope we don’t keep the same pace slowing down.

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guyonahorse t1_j44akq7 wrote

Heh, 3mhz Pentium 4s. They were slow, but they weren't *that* slow.

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trebuch3t t1_j45juaj wrote

But imagine going from a vehicle that tops out at 1mph to a vehicle at 30mph, and then after the same period of time getting to a vehicle that tops at 60mph. Despite linear progress, 1mph max speed to 30mph is clearly much more impressive

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mypostisbad t1_j4691rz wrote

It might FEEL more impressive but it is actually more technologically impressive to go from 30mph to 60mph

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CoolFreeze23 t1_j47kykc wrote

You'd be right but technology gets harder to improve the higher you go up. Going from 1mhz to 3ghz was really impressive, but the technological advancements needed to double that even further are insane.

Its like this, the iPhone 1 was released in 2007 and had a 2MP camera. And the iPhone 7 has a 12MP camera and was released in 2014. That's like in another 7 years the iPhone 15 had a 22MP camera. Sure it might *seem* like the same thing, but there's reason the phone's been at 12MP for a while. Your not doing the same thing you did from 1mhz to 3ghz as your doing from 3ghz to 6ghz

Linear progression with exponential technological advancements.

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PM_ME_YOUR_SSN_CC t1_j44dhzn wrote

Uh, no. If we round 1 MHz to 0 GHz then we went from 0, to 3, to 6. In the same amount of time we'll have 9 GHz. This is obvious math.

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Tenter5 t1_j44o5om wrote

Please review sig figs. You are assuming 1mhz is 0 in this scenario.

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r_golan_trevize t1_j46een2 wrote

I should also point out that the steps between 0 to 1 to 2 to 3mhz ghz were not linear at all. 0 to 1mhz ghz took from the dawn of computing to the late 1990s and then we went very quickly from 1 to 3 mhz ghz in the span of just a few years and then we leveled off around 3.4mhz ghz very quickly after that. It wasn't really linear at all.

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seiggy t1_j46s4xa wrote

Think you're confusing 1-3MHz with 1MHz-3GHz. In the 1990's, chipsets were running in the 100's of MHz. The first 1Mhz chip was in the 1970's, the first commercial PC, the Altair 8800 used a 2MHz Intel 8080. The original IBM PC in 1981 released with a 4.77 MHz CPU. In 1995, the Intel P5 was running at 100MHz, and in 2000 AMD released the first 1 GHz CPU.

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r_golan_trevize t1_j46sb72 wrote

Yeah, I mixed up mhz and ghz for the unpteenth time typing this stuff out.

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