CPU performance

Question 1

what is clock speed?

Answer 1

Sends out pulse at fixed intervals to initiate next action​

Question 2

increasing clock speed

Answer 2

More FCE cycles, in a second, increasing speed.​

Question 3

cache size?

Answer 3

Very fast memory located within CPU, retrieve quicker then RAM​

Question 4

What happens increasing cache size?​

Answer 4

Store more instructions, reducing amount of time lost.​

Question 5

What happens increasing number of cores?​

Answer 5

Number crunching, such as modelling weather patterns, and analyzing big data sets.​