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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100 Gbps is about 10 gigabytes per second. Many modern servers can process tens of GB/s. PCIE 4.0, a common standard for communication between the CPU/memory and the I/O cards, can be run at up to 32 gigabytes per second.