gigahertz
Gigahertz
3.8 billion machine cycles per second.
according to my text book "10^9 cycles per second. "
Yes, 1 gigahertz is 1 billion cycles per second
A cycle per second is a Hertz, abbreviated Hz. Therefore, a billion cycles per second (assuming an American, or "short scale", billion) is a Gigahertz (GHz).
Gigahertz
1 gigahertz is equal to 1 billion cycles per second.
It means 1.6 billion cycles per second.
... billion cycles per second.
There are two units of measure. The first is the number of cycles per second performed by the CPU, measured in Hertz (Hz), where 1 Hertz is 1 cycle per second and 1 gigahertz (GHz) is 1 billion cycles per second. All home computers are measured in Hertz. Hertz are also used to measure memory refresh rates, video refresh rates and so on. The second unit of measure is the number of floating point calculations per second, known as flops, where a gigaflop is a billion flops per second. Supercomputers are typically measured in flops.
The cgs unit to measure frequency is hertz (Hz). It represents the number of cycles or oscillations per second.
4GHz stands for 4 gigahertz, which is a unit of frequency indicating the number of cycles per second in a processor. A processor running at 4GHz can process 4 billion cycles per second. It is a measure of how fast a computer's central processing unit (CPU) can perform tasks.