Computer Systems - CPU Performance

This is lesson 7 from my Computer Systems unit looking at what affects the performance of the CPU. In lesson 6 we looked at the architecture of the CPU and how it works with memory.

This resource was primarily created for AQA GCSE computer science but could be adapted easily for OCR Computer Science.

In this lesson we look at the factors that affect the performance of the CPU, with emphasis on:

• Cache
• Number of Cores
• Clock Speed

The following resources included for this lesson are:

Lesson PowerPoint
Worksheet in 2 formats (.docx and .pdf)
Extension Activity Noughts and Crosses game (retrieval questions)

I use OneNote with my students so the above Worksheet is a template of what I distribute in each of the student notebooks.