Metric · Compute & AI Hardware
TFLOPS (Tera Floating-point Operations Per Second)
Peak floating point throughput in trillions of operations per second, always tied to a precision such as FP64, FP16 or FP8. Peak is the product of unit count, operations per unit and clock, not a measured result.
- Also known as
- FLOPS, PFLOPS, Peak FLOPS
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- Metric
- Domain
- Compute & AI Hardware, Benchmarks and metrics
Notes
Dense versus sparse and with versus without sparsity doubling is the usual source of confusion in vendor comparisons.
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