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Depends on the benchmark used to measure:
- KOPS or KIPS - measure of instructions executed per second
- MFLOPS - measure of floating point operations per second
- Whetstones - measure of overall floating point performance
- Drystones - measure of overall integer performance.
- Livermore loops - measure of computing and looping performance
- etc. etc.
Never measure CPU speed by the clock speed. Different architectures and implementations of the same architecture can give dramatically different speeds on real applications even with the CPUs running on the same clock.
One example of this occurred when Apple first started making Macs using the PowerPC. Power Macs could run in software emulation of the Intel Pentium Windows applications much faster than the existing PCs, even though the PCs operated on faster clock speeds and were running the code native.
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How fast is the l1 cache?
The L1 cache speed runs at the same speed as the CPU-central processing unit.
Which programs are good to test the speed of a CPU?
A CPU is also known as a computers central processing unit. There are some programs one could run to test the speed of ones CPU. Softpedia offers CPU Speed Professional for free. As well, Speed Test offers a free version as well as a paid version with good ratings.
What are the speed of CPU?
The CPU speed, and processor speed is the amount of cycles that a CPU can perform per second.CPU speed is not a good indicator of CPU performance.
Do CPU run as a computer processing unit?
The CPU IS the computers processing unit as CPU stands for "Central Processing Unit"
What is the CPU full form of CPU?
Central processioning unit.
How is the CPU speed measured an expression?
speed of a processor is measured by CMU(Clock Multiplier Unit). Formula:(speed of processor in Hz)/(FSB of processor)= CMU
What does the CPU consist of and what do the letters CPU stand for?
The letters CPU stand for Central Processing Unit. A CPU is made up of the control unit, instruction decoding unit and an arithmeticlogic unit.
A CPU contains?
A CPU contains a control unit and an arithmetic/logic unit
What is the abbreviation for 'central processor unit'?
Central Processor Unit --> CPU
Which unit of CPU control the overall operation of computer?
The Central Processing Unit (CPU)
The - unit coordinates all activities from CPU?
The control unit coordinates all activities of a CPU. The other parts of a CPU are arithmetic logic unit and memory.
What do you call the brain of a computer?
In general when speaking of computer hardware it is the CPU (central processing unit) also called the processor. As a whole unit though, it is a combination of the CPU, the Motherboard, RAM, and the operating system.
