KS3 CPU Performance

What is the correct total amount of instructions per second for the below CPU?

Clock Speed: 1.8GHz

Number of Cores: 4

Cache Size: 8MB

• 7.2 Billion Instructions

• 3.6 Billion Instructions

• 8 Billion Instructions

• 4 Billion Instructions

What is the correct total amount of instructions per second for the below CPU?

Clock Speed: 2.4GHz

Number of Cores: 4

Cache Size: 8MB

• 9.6 Billion Instructions

• 3.6 Billion Instructions

• 8 Billion Instructions

• 7 Billion Instructions

What is the correct total amount of instructions per second for the below CPU?

Clock Speed: 1GHz

Number of Cores: 8

Cache Size: 8MB

• 9.6 Billion Instructions

• 3.6 Billion Instructions

• 8 Billion Instructions

• 7 Billion Instructions

What is the correct total amount of instructions per second for the below CPU?

Clock Speed: 2GHz

Number of Cores: 4

Cache Size: 8MB

• 9.6 Billion Instructions

• 3.6 Billion Instructions

• 8 Billion Instructions

• 7 Billion Instructions

What is the correct total amount of instructions per second for the below CPU?

Clock Speed: 2.5GHz

Number of Cores: 4

Cache Size: 8MB

• 9.6 Billion Instructions

• 10 Billion Instructions

• 8 Billion Instructions

• 7 Billion Instructions

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Where it keeps the instructions it uses all the time. The larger it is, the more instructions it can store.

• Clock Size

• Number of Cores

• Cache Size

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A processor that can handle a single FDE cycle at a time, being able to do billions of those cycles in a second. The more of these, the better our CPU.

• Clock Size

• Number of Cores

• Cache Size

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How many of those Fetch-Decode-Execute cycles that a single core can handle in a second.

• Clock Size

• Number of Cores

• Cache Size

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The brain of the computer, it processes instructions before directing the computer to execute any tasks it has been given.

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• Read Only Memory (ROM)

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

• Control Unit (CU)

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Files that are currently in use are kept here; with the instructions they keep being fetched by the CPU.

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• Read Only Memory (ROM)

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

• Control Unit (CU)