flops - Is there any difference in execution times between two different processors with same amount of gigaflops? -
i have hardware related question debated friend.
consider 2 processors 2 different manufacturers same amount of gigaflops put same computers (i.e. ram , such same both computers).
now given simple program there difference in execution times between 2 computers same processors. i.e. 2 computers handle code differently (for-loops, while-loops, if-statements , such)?
and if, difference noticably or can 1 computers approximately perform same?
short answer: yes, different, possibly so.
flops floating point operations, very crude measure of cpu performance. in general decent proxy performance scientific computations of kinds, not general performance.
there cpus strong in flops - alpha historical example - have more moderate performance in integer computations. means alpha , x86 cpu similar flops have different mips-performance.
the truth is hard make generic benchmark, though many have tried.
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