If computer clocks max out somewhere around 5GHz, how is it possible for 100Gbit internet to exist? How does the computer possibly transfer that much data per second?

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If computer clocks max out somewhere around 5GHz, how is it possible for 100Gbit internet to exist? How does the computer possibly transfer that much data per second?

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You are comparing apples and oranges here, 5GHz refers to how many cycles a cpu does every second, in every cycle it executes a number of instructions, as that number increases you get more calculations so more “speed”, in the case of internet or networking in general Gbps (giga bits per second) it refers to the amount of data (bits) that you can transfer every second, how many ones and zeroes can be “sent” though a cable every second,