r_golan_trevize
r_golan_trevize t1_j46sb72 wrote
Reply to comment by seiggy in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek
Yeah, I mixed up mhz and ghz for the unpteenth time typing this stuff out.
r_golan_trevize t1_j46een2 wrote
Reply to comment by kkeiper1103 in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek
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.
r_golan_trevize t1_j43iuyt wrote
Reply to comment by kkeiper1103 in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek
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.
r_golan_trevize t1_j43gw21 wrote
Reply to comment by kkeiper1103 in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek
6ghz is twice as fast as 3ghz
3ghz is three thousand times as fast as 1mhz.
r_golan_trevize t1_j42t1gs wrote
It took as long to get from 3ghz to 6ghz as it did to get from 1mhz to 3ghz.
Yeah, I know, we got multiple cores and stuff along the way.
r_golan_trevize t1_iudq4rk wrote
Reply to comment by OTHERPPLSMAGE in ELI5: Why are the colours in rainbows in separate lines? by Oheligud
Both film and digital cameras, by no mere coincidence, respond to the same basic three colors the cells in our eyes do - red, green and blue - so they essentially see the same thing our eye does.
When those images are displayed back to us, our vision system responds to certain proportions of red green and blue as all of the colors of the rainbow, so to speak.
When you look at something emitting a pure yellow frequency, your eyes don’t actually record yellow, it records a certain amount of green and a certain amount of red (and technically probably a certain amount of blue because there is a lot of overlap between the three kinds of receptors and red even actually wraps around and has a little hump in the blue spectrum giving you purple) and your vision processing center interprets that as yellow. If you display red and green light together at the same proportions, your vision system will see that as the same yellow and not know any better.
That’s what the screen you’re looking at right now does - it’s just a bunch of tiny red, green and blue lights shining at different places at different proportions to recreate all the colors you’re seeing.
r_golan_trevize t1_j46sttv wrote
Reply to comment by seiggy in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek
My brain and fingers are running on millihertz right now.