- 2069 Bhadra · 2 marks
Define throughput of a system
Short answer
Throughput is the number of tasks or amount of data processed per unit time (e.g., bits/second). It measures work completed, distinct from latency; pipelining can increase throughput without reducing single-task latency.
Define throughput of a system.
Throughput is the number of tasks (or amount of data) a system can process per unit time, e.g. frames per second or bits per second. It measures how much work the system completes in a given period.
It differs from latency (the time to finish one task). Pipelining or parallelism can raise throughput without reducing the latency of a single task. For a system whose one task takes t seconds and that cannot overlap tasks, throughput = 1/t; with overlapping stages, throughput can be higher than 1/t.
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