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always feels weird to us that gpus are clocked so much lower than cpus in normal operation
like, our cpu has a nominal clock of 2.9 ghz and is currently running at close to 4 ghz factory overclock, while our gpu is running at 300 mhz
but it's doing massively parallel operations so each clock cycle can mean thousands of computations
since it's not really doing anything at the moment i imagine 300 mhz is its minimum frequency (modern cpus and gpus are what's called dynamic processors, where they need a minimum clock frequency to avoid glitches caused by capacitors leaking--similar to how dram works. it's far cheaper than static processors, just like how dram is far cheaper than sram)