CPU characteristics and their impact on performance questions
Q1. What units are CPU clock speeds given in?
Q2. What is the main difference between ‘cache’ and ‘RAM’?
Q3. How many processors does a dual-core CPU have?
Q4. Why is ‘word size’ important in a CPU?
Q5. How many ticks of the computer clock does an instruction take to execute?
Q6. Are all processors equal in performanace?
Q7. How many processors does a quad-core CPU have?
Q8. Why does the material a CPU is made of affect performance?
Q9. If a processor can transfer an instruction from RAM to itself in one go using this address 0110 0000 1010 1101, what is it known as?
Q10. Why do many CPUs inside a computer have a fan attached to the top of them?