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Gigaflops

Example: "The processor's floating point unit performs at 70 gigaflops."

definition Gigaflops is a unit of measurement that measures the processing power of a processor's floating point unit, or FPU. One gigaflops (or gigaFLOPS) is equal to one billion FLOPS, or floating point operations, per second.

Last Revised: January 31, 2009

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