Gigaflops

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

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.

First Published: 2009
Last Updated: January 31, 2009