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Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Watch out for your prefixes, 166 mHz would be one operation every 6 seconds.
I don't think there ever has been a CPU that slow ;-)

(small letter "g" doesn't exist as a prefix, but could be easily confused as the unit gram-Hertz)

[–] polotype@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I once made an incredibly limited cpu on paper, basically had the whole cpu in logic gate on a piece of paper. Tried to run the most basic programm on it by hand and i can assure you thet it was much slower than 166mhz XD