I don’t think AMD has EVER really gone the GHz route……they’ve gone the “larger caches” route since forever, but Intel has historically been the “clock speed wins” group.

Attack surface comparison really. If the only thing exposed is ssh, or your vpn, which do you trust to have fewer vulnerabilities in the exposed authentication system?

Probably a toss up.

Now if you’re talking about exposing multiple ssh endpoints vs a single vpn endpoint, that equation changes.

But a single relatively secure endpoint……difference is pretty negligible.

All the planets in the solar system can fit in the space between the Earth and the Moon