The gigahertz (GHz) is the largest unit used to represent CPU clock speed.
The fastest frequency ever reached was 8.429 GHz, set by the FX-8150 in September of 2011. A more recent claim has been made of 8.805GHz on the same processor, but it has not been officially validated yet.
The SI unit for average speed is meters per second (m/s). This unit represents the distance traveled per unit of time.
That's the speed the clock inside the Central Processor Unit operates. The faster the clock - the more operations per second the computer can perform.
A clock cycle is the low-hi-low transition of the clock. On each transition, the processor executes an instruction. It determines the speed if execution. So the faster the clock runs, the faster the chip works. This is why a Pentium 1 GHz chip is a LOT faster than a Pentium 100 MHz chip. Its unit is in Hz (or s-1) because it is a factor of frequency...
speed of a processor is measured by CMU(Clock Multiplier Unit). Formula:(speed of processor in Hz)/(FSB of processor)= CMU
Its not the speed over the roadbed that counts (all 3 are about the same) but the fact that unit trains do not need to be classified at each intermediary yard that makes them the "fastest".
A CPU's performance usually is determined by its clock speed (separated into two values: a multiplier, and a base clock), number of cores, and what most average people don't take into account, is instructions per clock cycle. A base clock is the base unit of speed that the clock runs at. Typically it's at 100MHz. This value is multiplied by the multiplier to get the total clock speed (A CPU running at a clock speed of 3.4GHz will have a multiplier of 34 [34*100 = 3400MHz = 3.4GHz])
The CPU clock is significant in determining the processing speed of a computer system because it regulates the speed at which the central processing unit (CPU) can execute instructions. A higher clock speed means the CPU can process more instructions per second, leading to faster overall performance of the computer system.
Isn't ProMos a RAM vendor? If this is the case, I believe ProMos shipped their 1GB part at PC-DDR2 5200, or 667MHz for the clock frequency of the RAM itself. The processing unit built into the ram probably doesn't have a discernible clock speed, or it is synced with the RAM's clock speed.
The common unit of meters per second is used to measure speed or velocity. It represents the distance traveled in meters per each second of time.
The SI unit for speed and velocity is meters per second (m/s). Speed is a scalar quantity that represents how fast an object is moving, while velocity is a vector quantity that includes both speed and direction.
A straight line on a distance/time graph means that the speed is constant. In every unit of time the distance increases by the same amount.
With pipelining, the CPU begins executing a second instruction before the first instruction is completed. Pipelining results in faster processing because the CPU does not have to wait for one instruction to complete the machine cycle. The system clock is a small chip that the control unit relies on to synchronize computer operations. The faster the clock, the more instructions the CPU can execute per second. The speed at which a processor executes instructions is called clock speed. Clock speed is measured in megahertz (MHz), which equates to one million ticks of the system clock.