Good morning everyone and welcome to my blog. Today we will talk a little more in depth about how processor speed is measured. Before we begin let us review what the processor does.
The processor lives on the motherboard which is the backbone of the computer. The process or is responsible for carrying out instructions and executing them. Whenever we use the computer we are interfacing with the CPU by the way of our operating system. Anything that is done on the computer always makes some sort of contact with the CPU.
How fast a particular CPU can do this is measured by how fast it’s clock signal is. The clock signal keeps the time of how your cpu and other components work in yoru computer. The signal goes form a low to high state within a certain amount of time. Think of the clock signal as a metronome. The amount of instructions a processor can can perform during the clock signal is the speed of your processor .
This is a very basic explanation of how processors are measured. Other factors such as whether or not it runs in sync with clock and multipliers come into place, but for now just know that a processor’s speed is determined on how many instructions can be executed by a clock signal. Well take care for now and as always please feel free to comment or email me with any questions you may have.
Good one this time.
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