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ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Processors and how CPU specs affect speed

Students learn how CPU clock speed, number of cores and cache change performance and which of these helps which kind of task.

One content description (AC9TDI8K01) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Hardware and Performance journey. All 6 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.

Modules (6)

1 Central processing unit (CPU) 2 CPU clock speed (GHz) 3 CPU cores 4 Cache memory 5 Clock speed or more cores: which helps which task 6 How cores, cache and clock affect CPU performance
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