It's more like 100,000X. Just the clockspeed increased 1000X, from 4 MHz to 4 GH...

		dist-epoch 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world could run on older hardware if software ... It's more like 100,000X. Just the clockspeed increased 1000X, from 4 MHz to 4 GHz. But then you have 10x more cores, 10x more powerful instructions (AVX), 10x more execution units per core.