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by Const-me 1690 days ago
> This is an assembler instruction that reads the "Cycle Counter" value from your CPU."

It did that ~10 years ago. On modern CPUs however, that instruction reads a counter which grows at the stock frequency of the CPU (e.g. at 3.6GHz for Ryzen 5 3600), regardless of frequency scaling of any of the cores.