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What is a processor's speed?

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Anonymous

7y ago
Updated: 9/28/2021

Clock Speed is a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a computers synchronisation clock, measured in hertz/Hz (Millions of cycles per second) or gigahertz/GHz (billions of cycles per second).

Older processors tend to perform one instruction (for example 5+3) per clock cycle. So an older 1Hz CPU could perform 1 million instructions per second.

Modern processors are capable perform many instructions in a single cycle. This means that Clock Speed is generally not a very good indicator of a CPUs overall performance.

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