FLOPS

Definition

FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second) measures the computing performance of processors, particularly for scientific and engineering workloads. Modern scales range from GFLOPS (10^9) for single CPUs, TFLOPS (10^12) for GPUs and workstations, PFLOPS (10^15) for supercomputers, to EFLOPS (10^18) for the largest systems. The Frontier supercomputer at ORNL achieved 1.2 EFLOPS, making it the first exascale system.

Written by
Daniel Kovacs

Updated Feb 11, 2026

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