: FLOPs, GIGAFLOPS, TERAFLOPS unit.

Question

I understand gigahertz, gigabytes, but not gigaflops.

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Answer 1

Everyone else has pretty much explained the basics of what FLOPS are. Floating point operations per second.

It’s a quick and dirty way of expressing the computing power of a computer or processor, typically it’s used in advertising as a quick and simple way of saying “Hey, this GPU/graphics card is the many time more powerful than this other one because the number of FLOPS is bigger!”