MIPS, FLOPS, and IT/S

[Nastybutler187]

I know that MIPS means Millions of instructions per second, and FLOPS means floating point operations per second, but what does it/s mean? i found this in sisoftsandra, which is the measurement it gives the multimedia-benchmark tests. can somebody tell me what it is, and explain it to me? also, a definition of mips and flops would also be good. thanks.

 

[Nastybutler187]

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[Fuzz]

MIPS - An acronym for millions of instructions per second, which is a measure of processing speed that refers to the average number of machine language instructions performed by the CPU in one second

FLOPS - An acronym for floating point operations per second. The term "floating point" refers to that format of numbers that is most commonly used for scientific calculation. Flops is used as a measure of a computing system's speed of performing basic arithmetic operations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing two numbers.

 

[Nastybutler187]

thanks, but what about the it/s? can anyone explain what that is?

 

[Fuzz]

I didnt find anything on that.

 

[Jerkstore]

it probably means iterations/second (don't quote me on that though, but it's the most logical thing I could come up with after googling sandra)