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0 pointsvient7mo ago0 comments

> TFLOPs are not the same between architectures.

Shouldn't they be the same if we are speaking about same precision? For example, [0] shows M4 Max 17 TFLOPS FP32 vs MAX+ 395 29.7 TPLOFS FP32 - not sure what exact operation was measured but at least it should be the same operation. Hard to make definitive statements without access to both machines.

[0] https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m4_max_16_cp...

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aurareturn7mo ago

M4 Max doesn't even disclose TFLOPS so no clue where that website got the numbers from.

TFLOPS can't be measured the same between generations. For example, Nvidia often quotes sparsity TFLOPS which doubles the dense TFLOPS previously reported. I think AMD probably does the same for consumer GPUs.

Another example is Radeon RX Vega 64 which had 12.7 TFLOPS FP32. Yet, Radeon RX 5700 XT with just 9.8 TFLOPS FP32 absolutely destroyed it in gaming.

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