Why is my Stopwatch.Frequency so low?

Question

  Debug.WriteLine(\"Timer is high-resolution: {0}\", Stopwatch.IsHighResolution);
  Debug.WriteLine(\"Timer frequency: {0}\", Stopwatch.Frequency);

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Answer 1

The Stopwatch.Frequency value is per second, so your frequency of 2,597,705 means you have more than 2.5 million ticks per second. Exactly how much precision do you need?

As for the variations in frequency, that is a hardware-dependent thing. Some of the most common hardware differences are the number of cores, the frequency of each core, the current power state of your cpu (or cores), whether you have enabled the OS to dynamically adjust the cpu frequency, etc. Your frequency will not always be the same, and depending on what state your cpu is in when you check it, it may be lower or higher, but generally around the same (for you, probably around 2.5 million.)