AQA A’Level SLR17 Performance of the CPU
About this video
AQA Specification Reference
AS Level 3.7.3.6
A Level 4.7.3.7
In this video we examine a range of factors which affect the performance of the CPU, including: Clock speed, Number of cores and Cache.
Key question:
- How is the performance of a CPU determined?
00:00 Performance of the CPU
00:11 Intro
00:16 Factors affecting speed
00:56 How common characteristics of CPUs affect their performance
01:11 Clock speed
01:36 Cache size
02:06 Number of cores
02:47 Word length
03:27 Address bus width
04:16 Data bus width
04:40 Key question
04:49 Outro
Last updated: 09.06.25
