Computer Science GCSE
Number of cores
What Number of cores means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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More cores allow multiple instructions or programs to be processed simultaneously, which can improve performance for tasks that can be parallelised.
Topics that use Number of cores
- CPU performance (OCR GCSE)
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