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Is 4 GHz Always Faster Than 3 GHz?
Is a 4 GHz CPU always faster than a 3 GHz CPU?
Practical scenario
A team is choosing between two cloud instance types. One advertises a higher boost clock; the other has more cores and a newer microarchitecture. Someone proposes picking on GHz alone.
What it tests
- • Whether clock speed is understood as one factor among several
- • Knowledge that work per cycle varies by microarchitecture
- • Awareness that many workloads are not compute-limited at all