teraflop
noun
tera·flop
ˈter-ə-ˌfläp 
plural teraflops
: a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second
Sony is also promising 10.28 teraflops of performance, which is nearly 15 percent less than the Xbox Series X.—
Tom Warren
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So one of the standard processes has four teraflops—four million million floating point operations a second on a piece of silicon that costs 5 bucks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2023
There are 64 field-programmable gate arrays that handle the emulation by together performing more than 150 trillion floating-point operations (teraflops).
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
Microsoft pairs this with a dedicated 10GB of RAM and a four teraflop GPU (graphics processing unit).
—Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 5 Nov. 2020
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IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2023
There are 64 field-programmable gate arrays that handle the emulation by together performing more than 150 trillion floating-point operations (teraflops).
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
Microsoft pairs this with a dedicated 10GB of RAM and a four teraflop GPU (graphics processing unit).
—Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 5 Nov. 2020
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“Teraflop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teraflop. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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