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Computer performance by orders of magnitude
Summary
This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS.
Scientific E notation index: 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | >24
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5×10−1: Computing power of the average human mental calculation for multiplication using pen and paper
1 OP/S: Power of an average human performing calculations using pen and paper
1 OP/S: Computing power of Zuse Z1
5 OP/S: World record for addition set
5×101: Upper end of serialized human perception computation (light bulbs do not flicker to the human observer)
2.2×102: Upper end of serialized human throughput. This is roughly expressed by the lower limit of accurate event placement on small scales of time (The swing of a conductor's arm, the reaction time to lights on a drag strip, etc.)
2×102: IBM 602 1946 computer.
92×103: Intel 4004 First commercially available full function CPU on a chip, released in 1971
500×103 Colossus computer vacuum tube supercomputer 1943
1×106: Computing power of the Motorola 68000 commercial computer introduced in 1979. This is also the minimum computing power of a Type 0 Kardashev civilization.
1.2×106: IBM 7030 "Stretch" transistorized supercomputer 1961
1×109: ILLIAC IV 1972 supercomputer does first computational fluid dynamics problems
1.354×109: Intel Pentium III commercial computing 1999
147.6×109: Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition commercial computing 2010
1.34×1012: Intel ASCI Red 1997 Supercomputer
1.344×1012 GeForce GTX 480 in 2010 from Nvidia at its peak performance
4.64×1012: Radeon HD 5970 in 2009 from AMD (under ATI branding) at its peak performance
5.152×1012: S2050/S2070 1U GPU Computing System from Nvidia
11.3×1012 :GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in 2017
13.7×1012: Radeon RX Vega 64 in 2017
15.0×1012: Nvidia Titan V in 2017
80×1012: IBM Watson
170×1012: Nvidia DGX-1 The initial Pascal based DGX-1 delivered 170 teraflops of half precision processing.
478.2×1012 IBM BlueGene/L 2007 Supercomputer
960×1012 Nvidia DGX-1 The Volta-based upgrade increased calculation power of Nvidia DGX-1 to 960 teraflops.
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