##  [Amdahl's Law](/amdahls-law) 

  ##  [Amdahl's Law](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/amdahls-law-0) 

  

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Definition

A performance law that relates the maximum possible overall speedup of a system to the fraction of the workload that can be parallelized and the speedup of that parallel portion; it shows diminishing returns when improving only a subpart of computation under a fixed problem size.