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How is the speed of the CPU measured?

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I think it will be in MIPS(Million Instructions Per Second) or Million Floating Point Instructions Per Second.

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Hertz
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hertz or HZ
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Megahertz or gigahertz A better unit is OPS (Operations Per Second) or FLOPS (FLoating point Operations Per Second). However benchmarking CPU performance is a tricky art and there are many different...
How is the speed of CPU measured?
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