Intel
Core i7-740qm is a four-core processor and het'n nominal operating frequency of 1.73 GHz. It's still slow but faster than the Core i7-720QM a nominal operating frequency of 1.6 GHz. Even though the nominal price of the Core i7-740QM is only 1.73 GHz, its turbo frequency is very high - 2.93 GHz. Note that not all the four cores can go into turbo mode simultaneously. In fact only one of the four cores to its frequency ramp to the maximum turbo frequency.
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