# How to find GHz equivelent

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**Created:** [September 8, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-find-ghz-equivelent/121941 "2004-09-08T21:20:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-find-ghz-equivelent/121941/1 "2004-09-08T21:20:06Z")

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When I look at something like: “AMD Athlon XP 2600+ CPU”, I don’t know how fast it is. But when I look at something like: “Pentium 4 @ 3.6 GHz”, I know that’s really fast. How do you translate AMD’s processors into a GHz equivelent?