The term "gigahertz," or "GHz," refers to the operating speed of a central processing unit; hertz defines the clock rate, or cycles per second, of the CPU. 1 GHz is equivalent to one billion hertz.

One of the most frequently touted measures of processor performance is a given chip's speed in gigahertz. Processors with higher GHz ratings can, theoretically, do more in a given unit of time than ...

If you’re running a high-end Intel (12th-14th gen) CPU, thermal throttling may not be unfamiliar. The aforementioned Intel CPUs (namely the i7-K and i9-K models) are especially problematic: they have ...

A tweet by XL (@9550pro) on the X platform revealed the latest GeekBench scores for AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X "Zen 5" flagship processor overclocked to 6.0 GHz. The data highlights a significant performance ...

Although chips including Intel's Pentium 4 series could be overclocked beyond 4GHz before the arrival of AMD's Bulldozer series, it was an AMD's FX chip that marked the debut of the first ...