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GFLOPS

GFLOPS

8.0
A measure of computer speed for one billion math operations per second
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : GFLOPS
  • With the current Kepler-based GPUs, GFLOPs per watt have increased by a factor of five.

Examples

  • The benchmark test showed that the server operates at a speed of 50 GFLOPS, making it one of the fastest in its class.

  • Each of the advanced graphics cards can process up to 12 GFLOPS for enhanced gaming performance.

  • The new supercomputer can achieve 10 petaflops, which equals 10,000 trillion GFLOPS.

Synonyms

gigaflop
vsGFLOPS
  • Specialized
1 8.2

A measure of computer speed equal to one billion calculations per second

is the same unit but shown as an uppercase plural abbreviation
billion floating point operations per second
vsGFLOPS
  • Specialized
4.7

A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second

is the same idea but used as a compact abbreviation form

How Fast

PFLOPS
  • Specialized
9.4
GFLOPS
  • Specialized
8.0
MFLOP
  • Specialized
7.9

Surface Forms

GFLOPS singular
GFLOPS plural

Morphology

GFLOPS = G + F + L + O + P + S

GFLOPS is a technical acronym (letters stand for 'giga' + 'floating point operations per second'); the letter sequence alone does not allow an average B1 learner to derive the meaning.

Etymology

GFLOPS comes from G, short for giga which means 'a billion', and FLOPS, short for 'floating point operations per second'. Think of giga like in gigabyte and of 'floating point' as numbers that 'float' with a decimal point, so GFLOPS tells you how many billion number calculations a computer can do each second and is used to measure processing speed.