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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Hertz and bits are completely different things. Hertz is about time, bit is about volume/size. Cpu does a calculation 5 billion times a second, lets say. Internet cable carries that calculation’s outcome “chunk” from here to there either 1 by 1 or 100 pieces at a time. So a chef cooks 6 steaks at a time but the waiter might be able to carry 6 of them at once or 2 at once. Waiter and Chef are two separate things and they do two different things.