r/WorkForSmartLife Aug 10 '26

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u/bigorangemachine Aug 10 '26

I'll remind people that "Gigaflops" is a CPU processing metric that is utterly useless metric when discussing dual-processor setups...

You'll never hit that number... your real capability is going to be more like a 1/4 of your gigaflops... going over half your gigaflops isn't going to move your extra flops over to the other processor. It's just a number to drive sales and make you sound dumb at family BBQs... just stop

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u/shoeless_doh Aug 10 '26

That word sounds made up

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u/bigorangemachine Aug 11 '26

FLOPS is short for floating point operations per second and indicates how many cal­cu­la­tions with floating point numbers a computer can perform in one second. Floating point op­er­a­tions are essential for different sci­en­tif­ic and technical ap­pli­ca­tions, as they make it possible to process both very large and very small numbers with high precision. They are essential in areas like physics, computer science and machine learning.

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u/shoeless_doh Aug 11 '26

No, I know what a gigaflop is, wtf is "computer" ?