DragonRouge on 15 November 2016
| CaptainExplosion2 said: I don't recall ever seeing that. Do you know of examples? |
Floating point refers to the position of the decimal point in a real number, means that the computer in question can move that decimal point as needed an thus perform basic calculations (+), (-), (*), (/) using real numbers.
It measures how fast a computer is, the higher the FLOPS, the more calcultions can be done in say, a second. Take a GPU for example, a GPU with higher FLOPS can draw more complicated geometries in a given time, than a slower GPU with less FLOPS.
In fact, I would think that saying "powerful" to refer to computer chips is kind of a misnomer, a more accurate term would be "fast", as in the PS4 GPU is faster than the Xbox One's.
