CPU Performance Equation (contd.)

• IC = Instruction Count of a program

• CPI = CPU clock cycles for a program / IC

• CPU Time = IC * CPI * Clock cycle Time

• CPU Time = IC * CPI / Clock Rate

• Thus the CPU perf is dependent on three components:

  • Instruction count of program
  • Cycle per instruction
  • Clock cycle time

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