: FLOPs, GIGAFLOPS, TERAFLOPS unit.

Question

I understand gigahertz, gigabytes, but not gigaflops.

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Answer 1

Some processors and GPUs can do floating point arithmetic (fractions) in hardware, which is fast. Some chips have to do floating point arithmetic using integers, which is much slower.

Many applications, like video games, require floating point arithmetic, so a good measure of how useful the chip will be is floating point operations per second, or flops.