Modern AMD and Intel processors are fantastic feats of engineering, packing billions of transistors inside a tiny package. Over the decades, we’ve seen improvements made to the number of physical cores available for processing instructions, increased clock speeds to allow the central processing unit (CPU) to handle more instructions per cycle, and more efficient architectures to get as much performance per watt as possible. Most recent CPUs from AMD and Intel will automatically and dynamically boost depending on power and thermal constraints.