A:Answer I think the answer is, it depends on what you are doing. The advertised max speed is 6Ghz. But, the processor has a 24-core CPU, including eight Performance (P) cores with a max Turbo frequency of up to 5.6GHz, and 16 Efficiency (E) cores with a max Turbo frequency of up to 4.4GHz, and has a total of 32 processor threads. So, it depends on what software or apps you are running and how many simultaneously. The bottomline is - it's fast! Also amazing is it runs very cool given the power of the i9.