How to Calculate GFLOPS

When selecting the Hardware tab in SiSoftware Sandra, and then selecting Processors, you can see the Peak Processing Performance, displayed in gigaFLOPS.

GFLOPS, or gigaFLOPS, represents a measurement in billions of floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) that a computer's microprocessor can handle. Often, the term gigaFLOPS is confused with frequency. The distinction is that frequency measures the amount of cycles the processor runs at, and the GFLOPS value is the amount of floating point operations it can handle. FLOPS is a benchmark of how your computer performs when handling very complex mathematical calculations. For example, your computer's ability to draw polygons and make calculations based on distance in a 3-dimensional setting.

Things You'll Need

• Computer

Instructions

Calculate the Amount of FLOPS on Your CPU

1. Acquire a computer analysis/diagnosis program that shows detailed information about your CPU, such as SiSoftware Sandra.

2. In the software, you should have a processor analysis panel. Begin the analysis of your CPU and wait for it to finish.

3. Examine the amount of FLOPS of your CPU in the results.

4. If the results are in FLOPS, divide the result by 1 billion (1,000,000,000) to get the result in GFLOPS.

Tips & Warnings

• You should close all other running applications to get the best and most accurate results of your system's performance.

References

• What is FLOPS - Webopedia

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish