Computer Science GCSE
Factors limiting CPU performance
What Factors limiting CPU performance means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Performance gains are limited by cache misses, memory bandwidth, thermal limits and how well software uses multiple cores.
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- CPU performance (OCR GCSE)
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