'kuOPs?'

Aether · Post by **Aether** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:12 am

I don't know a whole lot about computer hardware, but I was moderately curious about stuff I couldn't find out from the Device Manager on my father's 8250. So I got this DOS-based diagnostic program, which is said to be shaky on XP anyway, but I got a weird reading I've never come across before. Searches on Google and these forums yielded no results, either.

My 'Level 1 Cache' read:

12 kuOPs
8kB

What's a kuOP?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:14 am

NO IDEA what a "KuOP" is...

If your using XP then get this http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Kyler1

Aether · Post by **Aether** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:19 am

I have CPU-Z, have for a while, but never paid attention to the cache readouts before. Now that I look at it, that particular figure comes as the Level 1 Trace, which is something else I don't know. And instead of kuOPs, it's k(greek character)OPs.

emuguru · Post by **emuguru** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:37 am

The acronym kμops stands for "Thousand Micro-Operations" K being thousand. It's a measurement of how many operations the processor can cache. Instead of using size in bytes, or kilo-bytes, which is misleading, due to the different size of instructions on each different cpu. So a 12 kμops cpu can cache up to 12,000 micro-operations

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:04 pm

emuguru wrote:The acronym kμops stands for "Thousand Micro-Operations" K being thousand. It's a measurement of how many operations the processor can cache. Instead of using size in bytes, or kilo-bytes, which is misleading, due to the different size of instructions on each different cpu. So a 12 kμops cpu can cache up to 12,000 micro-operations