teraflops

American  

[ter-uh-flops] / ˈtɛr əˌflɒps /

noun

1. a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

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Etymology

Origin of teraflops

First recorded in 1985–90; tera- ( def. ) + flops ( def. )

Example Sentences

There’s also 78 teraflops for ray tracing and 320 teraflops for AI tasks.

From The Verge

The AI can clearly search at a zillion teraflops and come back with meaningful words.

From Washington Post

AMD revealed last week that it’s powering this new infotainment system in both the new Model S and Model X, with 10 teraflops of compute power.

From The Verge

It’s not that Democrats didn’t have the ability to harness teraflops of surveillance-based insights as reasons to reject Trumpian allies and enablers.

From New York Times

There’s a lesson in there somewhere about how an emotional connection isn’t made by an audiophile-approved sound system or a 4K TV or a new video game console and all of its teraflops.

From Los Angeles Times