Every year new chips hit the market with tweaks in the sizes, speeds, and reliability. Most of this means only gradients to the public but takes some serious engineering on the back end. Have you ever purchased a CPU motherboard combo deal out of fear of getting mismatched components?
You only did it for the savings? Not every CPU fits in the same motherboard. The socket type tells you what generation of processor is will fit. Typically this is constrained by the dimensions of the chip and the arrangement of pins. For the most part, generation refers to changes in underlying architecture, how the chip is laid out and configurations of memory modules and instructions.
For Intel users, your basement is the 7th gen and your newer purchases should aim for 9th gen. For AMD Ryzen users, look for 2nd or 3rd generation, though announcements on the 4th generation are expected before Also, the number 9 is showing up more in these lists, but you get the idea. Both Intel and AMD use these numbers to indicate families of processors. The 3 line offers basic performance for workstations.
This means that if you can't get enough data into the processor to keep it busy until it can communicate with the outside world again, it'll sit idle. Clock speeds also don't tell you how long it takes a processor to actually do something. While processors in the same family frequently have the same instruction sets and execution times, it can be hard to compare processors of different brand or different type within the same brand because of this difference.
While one chip running at 5 GHz will usually be faster than two chips running at 2. Generally speaking, if your employees are running multiple programs at once or are running software that is written specifically to take advantage of multi-core processors, a processor with more cores will be slower than a faster processor with fewer cores, but not always.
Depending on how your business uses computers, other upgrades may make more of an impact than a faster processor. Processor binning is pretty recent phenomenon in the mobile industry, and the perfect example of this is the Galaxy S4 and the HTC One.
The difference in clock speed is pretty minor between the two bins of the Snapdragon SoC, so it really should not matter much to the end user. However, the difference in speeds between the difference bins of the Snapdragon S, the latest and greatest chip from Qualcomm, is pretty remarkable. At first glance, the only visible difference between the two different bins of the S is in the clock speed of the processor. The clock speed of a processor isn't the only factor when you're thinking about its efficiency.
Many processors now have multiple cores, which are effectively separate processing units within the chip. Generally, processors with more cores can run more tasks in parallel, effectively making them faster.
Processors also contain a limited amount of cache memory, where they can store data for fast access. More cache generally means a speedier processor. You may also want to take into account how much energy a processor uses. Modern processors have gotten more energy efficient, but faster processors can require more energy than slower ones.
The processor isn't the only factor determining how fast and how smoothly your computer runs.
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