>>105719698
Fast cores are worthless if you can't keep them fed and cooled. Clock speed isn't everything. What really matters is having a balanced design to maximize instructions per clock cycle, and that's almost entirely determined by the micro architecture and how well it can manage the cache hierarchy while doing dynamic frequency scaling. Highly parallel designs with a good software scheduler end up being superior because when one core gets too hot and needs to downclock, your workload can shift to a different core and maintain higher speeds.
