CPU Performance Factors

What is CPU Performance Factors?

CPU performance factors are the three properties that decide how quickly a processor completes work — clock speed, the number of cores and the size of the cache — each of which raises performance only under conditions that must be stated.

This definition is part of the Hardware chapter in Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science.

Concepts related to CPU Performance Factors

• clock speed
• core
• cache
• Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle