Calculate FLOPS, total floating point operations, or run time from any two values, with units from FLOPS to GFLOPS and seconds to hours.
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FLOPS Formula
The following formula is used to calculate the floating point operations per second (FLOPS) for a given number of operations and time.
Variables:
- F is the floating point operations per second (FLOPS)
- O is the number of floating point operations
- T is the time in seconds
To calculate the floating point operations per second, divide the number of floating point operations by the time in seconds.
What is FLOPS?
FLOPS, or floating point operations per second, is a measure of a computer’s performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating point calculations. It is often used in high-performance computing. Comparisons require consistent workload, arithmetic precision, operation counting and timing conventions; an average measured rate is different from theoretical peak throughput.
How to Calculate FLOPS?
The following steps outline how to calculate the floating point operations per second (FLOPS).
- First, determine the number of floating point operations (O).
- Next, determine the time in seconds (T) it takes to perform these operations.
- Finally, calculate the FLOPS using the formula F = O / T.
- After inserting the values and calculating the result, check your answer with the calculator above.
Example Problem :
Use the following variables as an example problem to test your knowledge.
Number of floating point operations (O) = 1,000,000
Time in seconds (T) = 0.5
