CPU Performance

Which of these are factors effecting the performance of a CPU?

• bus width

• clock speed

• cache memory

• cable length

• number of cores

When the number of cores increases what else also increases?

• the speed of each individual core

• the bus width

• the number of channels needed

• the lifespan of the processor

What is improved by overclocking?

• bus width

• clock speed

• number of cores

• cache memory

What kind of RAM is normally used by cache memory?

• SRAM

• DRAM

What units are used when measuring clock speed?

• bytes (b)

• hertz (Hz)

• meters (m)

• watts (W)

How many operations per second can a 1GHz processor execute?

• 1,000,000,000

• 1,073,741,824

• no way to know exactly

If a processor's address bus has a bus width of 8 then how big is each memory address?