[slver]

Clockrate is not a bottleneck on how fast your computer is. It's just a synchronization primitive.

Think about it like the tempo of a song. The entire orchestra needs to play in sync with the tempo, but how many notes you play relative to the tempo is still up to each player. You can play multiple notes per "tempo tick".

[amelius]

You will have to use a faster internal clock to play those faster notes, though.

[can_count]

The point is that you don't. A clock tick is not the smallest unit of operation. It's the smallest unit of synchronization. A lot of work can be done in-between synchronization points.