CPU flop

AoDLiQuiD-M3tH · Post by **AoDLiQuiD-M3tH** » Sat May 03, 2003 7:24 pm

i have a p3 700 now what are flops and why are mine so high when compared to other procs?

Processor L2 Cache CpF*
Intel Itanium 2 256 KB + 1.5 MB L3 1.3
Intel Itanium 92 KB + 2 MB L3 1.9
Alpha 21264B 8 MB 3.1
Alpha 21264A 4 MB 3.2
Intel Pentium III Xeon 2 MB 3.2
Intel Pentium III Xeon 1 MB 3.6

Intel 486DX 256 KB 21.3
VIA C3 64 KB 21.8
AMD 5x86 256 KB 30.6
This processor (average) 256 KB 32.94
Intel Itanium (x86 mode) 92 KB + 2 MB L3 38.9
AMD 386DX 256 KB 59.5
CPU Multiplier: 1.0

now it says lower is better but its higher then a 386 and 486 proc....... how can i lower this?

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Sat May 03, 2003 7:45 pm

FLOPS= Floating point Operations Per Second, basically it's a test of a processors FPU or Floating Point Unit. The part of the processor involved in calculation numbers that have decimals that take longer to compute than integers. The numbers should be higher for a faster processor in general depending on the architecture not lower.

AoDLiQuiD-M3tH · Post by **AoDLiQuiD-M3tH** » Sat May 03, 2003 11:47 pm

ahh so the test i was running was wrong because it said the lower the value the better but more the better ty

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Sun May 04, 2003 10:47 pm

Originally posted by AoDLiQuiD-M3tH
ahh so the test i was running was wrong because it said the lower the value the better but more the better ty

Yeah and it's kind of an obsolete test. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/FLOPS.html