Can someone please explain how fast a FLOP is?

Sherwyn · Jul 18, 2006

3trQN · Jul 18, 2006

Flop stands for FLoating-point OPeration, the time it takes for a computer to do a certain number of these operations each second is used to characterise cpu performance. So a FLOP has a variable speed depending on the computer architecture.

Maybe a better question would be, What is the theoretically fastest FLOP or how many FLOPs can a Chip perform a seccond?

Can someone please explain how fast a FLOP is?

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Can someone please explain how fast a FLOP is?

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