003. OCR A Level (H406-H466) SLR1 – 1.1 Performance of the CPU
About this video
OCR Specification Reference
AS Level 1.1.1c
A Level 1.1.1c
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
00:10 Intro
00:15 Factors affecting speed analogy
01:03 How common characteristics of CPUs affect their performance: Clock speed
02:13 Cache size
03:30 Number of cores
04:18 Key question
04:27 Going beyond the specification
04:38 Multicore systems
04:54 Chip Multiprocessor (CMP)
05:20 Additional specialised processing units
06:00 Outro
Last updated: 18.03.26
