It’s not gay if the balls don’t touch

I guess we should also force everyone to use wheelchairs because they are great for paraplegics.

I can hear this image

They’re sometimes compatible. I have French style plugs in Belgium, but most of my devices have both a hole and side connectors to be cross-compatible.

Using Voyager here. Can confirm, OP has a baby face

IPC, or instructions per clock. So how many instructions it can process per Hz. And which instructions it supports. For example AVX512 can speed up bulk data processing in specific applications that support it.

With all these complications the only way to really compare CPUs accurately is to benchmark the programs or games you intend to run on them. Obviously this is not realistic so reviewers benchmark a few varied real world programs, games and artificial tests. Those results usually extrapolate fairly well to other, similar software.