DOes the Gigahertz of a computer matter?
i have a 1.6 ghz powerbook does that make it slower than a 2.4 ghz laptop?
i have a 1.6 ghz powerbook does that make it slower than a 2.4 ghz laptop?
Siddu
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Gigahertz measures the number of instructions a processor can execute per second. 2.4 GHz processor processes more number of instructions compared to 1.6 GHz processor in a given time frame.
Computer performance depends on lot of other factors also like RAM, HDD speed,.... A computer loaded with 2.4 GHz processor might be faster compared to a computer loaded with 1.6 GHz processor but it is not always true...
Benji
The hertz of a computers processor is how many computational cycles it can conduct in a second.
so 1.6ghz performs less computations than a 2.4ghz.
Anonymous
yes it does because 1.6ghz is 1600mhz or it can do 1.6 billion processes a second and 2.4ghz can do 2.4 billion processes a second so higher is better :)
Anonymous
yep. based on exactly what you said. If its dual core vs single core then things change.