What Does Gigahertz (GHz) Actually Mean?

How fast is a 2.5 GHz computer and what does that mean?

Patrick Divine
The Startup
Published in
6 min readSep 13, 2020

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The term “gigahertz” is composed of two parts, “giga” and “hertz”. To understand “gigahertz” we’ll dive into what each of these parts mean separately, and then apply this understanding to what in relation to a computer, and more specifically a computer’s CPU.

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