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Digital Technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Knowledge and understanding / Digital systems
Curriculum content descriptions
explain how hardware specifications affect performance and select appropriate hardware for particular tasks and workloads (AC9TDI8K01)
Elaborations
- explaining how hardware specifications affect what, and how quickly, a digital system can perform tasks, for example how different bandwidth networks affect download speed and lag or how much random access memory (RAM) is needed for multimedia authoring
- selecting appropriate hardware for particular tasks, for example choosing a powerful graphics card for computer gaming or large external storage for video editing
- considering how First Nations Australians communities in areas classified as remote often share access to smartphone and internet services, and how the hardware specifications of these devices affect performance, for example where immediate and extended families share and access data through a single smartphone or device
- explaining how the specifications of components in a system impact the speed with which AI models can be trained; for example, GPUs are more efficient at performing the mathematical calculations necessary for training generative AI than CPUs
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ScOT terms
Computer hardware, Information and communication technologies