Practice - MIPS and MFLOPS as Performance Metrics
Practice Questions
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What does MIPS stand for?
💡 Hint: It’s related to how many instructions a CPU can execute.
Calculate MIPS: If a CPU has a clock speed of 2 GHz and a CPI of 2, what is its MIPS?
💡 Hint: Use the formula MIPS = (Clock Rate in MHz) / CPI.
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What does MIPS stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about the measure of instruction execution speed.
True or False: MFLOPS measures the speed of all types of operations in a CPU.
💡 Hint: Consider what kind of calculations MFLOPS is focused on.
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If a CPU has a clock rate of 4 GHz and a CPI of 4, what is its MIPS? How can this MIPS value be misleading when comparing to a different architecture that has a lower MIPS but offers faster execution due to other architectural benefits?
💡 Hint: Consider architectural differences in instruction execution.
Evaluate how calculating MFLOPS for two different processors could change drastically based on their floating-point operation workflow and type of calculations executed.
💡 Hint: Reflect on how different processors might prioritize operations.
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