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    Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed. For complex instruction set computers (CISCs), different instructions take...
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  • the number of instructions by the number of CPU clock cycles. The number of instructions per second and floating point operations per second for a processor...
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  • calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than instructions per second.[citation needed] Floating-point arithmetic is needed for very...
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  • per instruction for a program or program fragment. It is the multiplicative inverse of instructions per cycle. The average of Cycles Per Instruction in...
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  • terabits per second Binary prefix Bit rate List of interface bit rates Orders of magnitude (bit rate) Orders of magnitude (data) Metric prefix Instructions per...
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  • ⁠operations/second⁠, then performance per watt can be written as ⁠operations/watt-second⁠. Since a watt is one ⁠joule/second⁠, then performance per watt can...
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    per day (cpd) and cycles per year (cpy). Cycles per instruction (CPI) Cycles per metre Heinrich Hertz Instructions per cycle (IPC) Instructions per second...
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  • using less energy per instruction. Out of order CPUs can usually do more instructions per second because they can do several instructions at once. In a pipelined...
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    based on a mix of instructions typical of scientific applications ("Gibson Mix") with the results in kilo Instructions Per Second (kIPS) per Longbottom, Roy...
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    commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). Since 2022, exascale supercomputers...
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    "jump" instructions (or branches). Furthermore, jump instructions may be made to happen conditionally so that different sequences of instructions may be...
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    8051 could thus execute 1 million one-cycle instructions per second or 500,000 two-cycle instructions per second. Enhanced 8051 cores are now commonly used...
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    B instructions have, in sequence, a 12-bit instruction code (with the second and third bits set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a...
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    speed of the 650 was estimated to be around 27.6 ms per instruction, or roughly 40 instructions per second. Donald Knuth's series of books The Art of Computer...
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    41 million instructions per second Dhrystone MIPS and SPEC integer rating of 27.9. It is approximately twice as fast as the i386 or i286 per clock cycle...
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    cycles, the 8080 was capable of executing several hundred thousand instructions per second. Later, two faster variants, the 8080A-1 and 8080A-2, offered improved...
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    million pixels/second Actual real-world polygons (per frame): range of 500–600k at 30 FPS, 250–300k at 60 FPS Instructions per second: 6,000 MIPS (million...
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    sometimes measured in millions of instructions per second (MIPS), although the definition depends on the instruction mix measured. Examples of integer...
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  • intelligence, by estimating the computational cost (measured in instructions per second) of various operations of human intelligence, and comparing it...
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  • 124 Whetstone instructions. Timing this program gave a measure of the machine's speed in thousands of Whetstone instructions per second (kWIPS). The Fortran...
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  • Pumarejo Airport, also known as Valledupar Airport, IATA code VUP Instructions per second, as "VAX Unit of Performance" The viewer/user/player role in transmedia...
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  • CPU cache (redirect from Second-level cache)
    both executable instructions and data. A single TLB can be provided for access to both instructions and data, or a separate Instruction TLB (ITLB) and...
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    clock speed of 1 MHz), but the program speed averaged below 1,000 instructions per second due the many clock cycles needed for each operation and slow access...
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  • Linux kernel on comp.os.linux: [...] MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It is a measure for the computation speed of a processor. Like...
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    5 million operations (for an effective CPU speed of about 1100 instructions per second). The first design for a program-controlled computer was Charles...
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  • This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS. Scientific E notation index:...
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    megapixel display with 1024×1024 1-bit pixels, and one million instructions per second (MIPS) of processing power. It was also often said that it should...
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    individual instructions perform simpler operations. The goal is to offset the need to process more instructions by increasing the speed of each instruction, in...
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  • using less energy per instruction. Out-of-order CPUs can usually do more instructions per second because they can do several instructions at once. Control...
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    so that they complete more instructions per clock cycle, thus achieving a lower CPI (cycles or clock cycles per instruction) count, although they may run...
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