Processors have been stuck in the 2-5 GHz range for basically a decade, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to get any faster. My question is, how does their speed keep getting faster, if the clock speed isn’t getting faster?
Example: The Ryzen 7 5800X (based off leaked benchmarks) is somewhere around 20% faster than the Ryzen 9 3900X for single-core benchmarks. How is a jump of this size possible without increasing clock speed? I’m sure they did increase clocks a little bit for the upcoming generation, but not by 20%.
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