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  2. Thermal Monitor 2 - Wikipedia

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    Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) is a throttling control method used on LGA 775 versions of the Core 2, Pentium Dual-Core, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Celeron processors and also on the Pentium M series of processors. [1] TM2 reduces processor temperature by lowering the CPU clock multiplier, and thereby the processor core speed. [2]

  3. Hardware performance counter - Wikipedia

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    In computers, hardware performance counters (HPC), [1] or hardware counters are a set of special-purpose registers built into modern microprocessors to store the counts of hardware-related activities within computer systems. Advanced users often rely on those counters to conduct low-level performance analysis or tuning.

  4. Computer performance - Wikipedia

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    For example, building the CPU out of better, faster transistors. However, sometimes pushing one type of performance to an extreme leads to a CPU with worse overall performance, because other important aspects were sacrificed to get one impressive-looking number, for example, the chip's clock rate (see the megahertz myth).

  5. Dynamic frequency scaling - Wikipedia

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    ACPI 1.0 (1996) defines a way for a CPU to go to idle "C states", but defines no frequency-scaling system. ACPI 2.0 (2000) introduces a system of P states (power-performance states) that a processor can use to communicate its possible frequency–power settings to the OS. The operating system then sets the speed as needed by switching between ...

  6. CPU modes - Wikipedia

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    Several computer systems introduced in the 1960s, such as the IBM System/360, DEC PDP-6/PDP-10, the GE-600/Honeywell 6000 series, and the Burroughs B5000 series and B6500 series, support two CPU modes; a mode that grants full privileges to code running in that mode, and a mode that prevents direct access to input/output devices and some other hardware facilities to code running in that mode.

  7. Performance Monitor - Wikipedia

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    The Process performance object consists of counters that monitor running application program and system processes. All the threads in a process share the same address space and have access to the same data. Processor The Processor performance object consists of counters that measure aspects of processor activity.

  8. Benchmark (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A graphical demo running as a benchmark of the OGRE engine. In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.

  9. Computer performance by orders of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    2×10 15: Nvidia DGX-2 a 2 Petaflop Machine Learning system (the newer DGX A100 has 5 Petaflop performance) 11.5×10 15: Google TPU pod containing 64 second-generation TPUs, May 2017 [9] 17.17×10 15: IBM Sequoia's LINPACK performance, June 2013 [10] 20×10 15: roughly the hardware-equivalent of the human brain according to Ray Kurzweil.