how fast is Processor Speed?

Question

How does Processor Speed work is it faster the higher number you go or the lower?

Answer 1

The faster the processor's clock speed, which is measured in MHz (megahertz) or GHz (gigahertz), the faster it can execute instructions.

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Answer 2

There's no way to know which processor is faster just by the clock speed. For example, a Core 2 Duo E4700 drastically outperforms a Pentium D 805, even though they are both dual core CPUs and the Pentium D 805 has a higher clock speed. CPU clock speeds are a measure of how many times per second the CPU changes state. They are not a measure of how quickly the CPU accomplishes useful work.

Answer 3

The clock rate is the fundamental rate in cycles per second (measured in hertz) at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transferring a value from one processor register to another. Different chips on the motherboard may have different clock rates. Usually when referring to a computer, the term "clock rate" is used to refer to the speed of the CPU. The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing the speeds of entire computers, like the clock rate of the computer's front side bus, the clock rate of the RAM, the width in bits of the CPU's bus and the amount of Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 cache.

Answer 4

Higher Ghz means faster processor clock but may not necessarily mean faster performance. Many new processors run below 2 Ghz but they are fast because they do more per clock cycle.

Answer 5

The higher thenumber the faster the processor. the number is actually the frequency of clock cycles.
So simple example a 500 mhz processor is running 500 million clock cycles per second.

Answer 6

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