Bonus: The new Mac Pro has graphics with up to 56 teraflops of computing power, how is that different from a small supercomputer with 56 teraflops
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FLOPS is an acronym – it stands for Floating Point Operations Per Second. It’s a measurement for how fast something can do floating point math.
Keep in mind, 56 Teraflops is impressive for a desktop machine – a Radeon RX Vega video card does 11-14 Teraflops. However, a top supercomputer in 2004 (the IBM Blue Gene) was performing at 70.72 Teraflops. The top supercomputer today, the IBM Summit, runs at 200 petaflops – that’s 200,000 Teraflops.
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