processors Flashcards

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What are factors that affect processor performance?

A

1.clock speed.
2. number of cores
3. Amount and type of cache memory

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What is cache memory, and why does it affect processor performance?

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It s a small, expensive but very fast memory located inside the CPU. It is quicker to fetch instructions from Cache than going back to CPU

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