A computer that you use to play a 3-D action game has a vastly different instruction set than the computer that your grandmother uses to type e-mail messages.

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Most modern computers, regardless of their use case (gaming, email, etc.), utilize the same underlying instruction set architecture (ISA), such as x86 or ARM, which allows them to run a wide range of software applications. Differences in performance are typically due to hardware specifications (CPU speed, graphics processing capabilities, etc.) rather than the instruction set.

A Computer That You Use to Play a 3-D Action