The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the main hardware unit on a computer that is responsible for executing instructions from programs. Because of that, the speed of the CPU has a significant impact on the system’s performance.
In this article, we will learn how to get both the base and real-time CPU speed information on Linux. There are various command-line utilities and scripts we can use to get the speed of our CPU.
2. CPU Speed
CPU speed is defined as clock speed or clock rate. The clock rate indicates the processing frequency of a processor.