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 O Level Computer Science.

Concepts related to CPU Performance Factors

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