How is the operating speed of the computer denoted?

Question

Is it in seconds, megahertz, milliseconds or microbits.

Answer 1

Well, Megahertz/Gigahertz is the typical consumer standard, but that actually doesn't mean anything at all. For Instance, a 2.0 Gigahertz Pentium M processor is more efficient than a 3.0 Gigahertz Pentium 4 processor. Using benchmarks, the 2 Gigahertz CPU will usually beat the poorly designed Pentium 4, despite the fact it has a lower clock frequency. The technical benchmark that CPUs are held to is called MIPS, or millions of instructions per second. Most benchmark software will return a processors MIPS rating, and will give a raw interpretation of what a specific processor can process. If you are looking to buy a computer and want to compare the processor with other processors, you can use google to find a CPU review which will show benchmarks for gaming, number crunching, floating point, etc. It's safe to say, the fastest CPUs on the market today are the Dual and Quad core intel processors.

Answer 2

None of the above. CPU clock speed was measured in MHz but it isn't the operating speed of the computer. Older PCs were marketed based on MHz or GHz but as you may be aware, that marketing ploy went away when AMD started producing more efficient processors in the AMD Atholon XP line. AMD had to name them similar to the Intel chips so people could compare them (i.e. AMD Athlon 3000XP had a clock speed around 1.67 GHz but competed with the Intel 3GHz chip at the time).

Benchmarks are about the only way to compare chips now and processor names should give a way to compare, both with the same vendor and its competitors.

In the datacenter environment, a lot of interest is actually in performance per watt values rather than raw performance. With the cost of electricity and cooling of the datacenter, going for lower clock speed (GHz or MHz) and heat while maintaining high performance rates is more important.

Answer 3

theres no way to measure speed of a computer in exact terms you can just bench mark your pc' s performance against other computers, depending on your pc's configuration.coz a computers speed is a combined effort of the speed of various components inside it.
Although you can measure the speed of a microprocessor in Hertz(megahertz,gigahertz.,etc.), but that too is just the clock speed of the processor.A faster processor does not necessarily mean a better one, As processors performance also depends upon the task at hand.
for eg: an AMD athlon 1.8ghz processor can give better performance than intel P4 3ghz in various multimedia applications.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

For ppl not literated in computer science/engineering use Mega or Giga or whatever Hertz (was that spelling right?).

For computer scientists/engineers the proper units are flops and MIPS (millions of instructions per second).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Megahertz and gigahertz.