GITNUXREPORT 2026

Calculating Power Statistics

Computing power has exponentially increased from primitive kiloFLOPS to modern exaflop supercomputers.

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Key Statistics

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX scores 100 GFLOPS peak single CPU FP64

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Intel Core i9-13900K achieves 1.7 TFLOPS FP32 peak with AVX-512

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NVIDIA H100 SXM GPU delivers 67 TFLOPS FP64 Tensor Core performance

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AMD Instinct MI300X GPU reaches 163.4 TFLOPS FP16 peak

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Apple M2 Ultra chip peaks at 31.6 TFLOPS FP32 GPU performance

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Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ offers 2.9 TFLOPS FP64 per socket peak

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NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU achieves 19.5 TFLOPS FP64 with Tensor Cores

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AMD EPYC 9754 (Genoa) peaks at 3.2 TFLOPS FP64 dual socket

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 GPU at 3.2 TFLOPS FP32 peak for mobile

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IBM Power10 processor delivers 5 TFLOPS FP64 per chip

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NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU reaches 82.6 TFLOPS FP16 peak shader

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 61 TFLOPS FP32 peak performance

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Intel Arc A770 GPU delivers 17.2 TFLOPS FP16 peak

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ARM Neoverse V2 core in AWS Graviton3 peaks at 0.4 TFLOPS FP32 per core

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Google Tensor Processing Unit v4 (Trillium) achieves 2.7 petaFLOPS FP16 per pod

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Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) delivers 20 petaFLOPS FP16 AI performance

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Graphcore IPU Colossus MK2 GC200 at 350 TOPS INT8 per chip

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SambaNova SN40L chip reaches 2 petaFLOPS FP16 per card

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Tenstorrent Grayskull at 114 TOPS INT8 peak performance

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SiPearl Rhea CPU for HPC peaks at 1.7 TFLOPS FP64 per socket

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Frontier's HPE Slingshot-11 interconnect enables 200 Gb/s per node for calculating power

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NVIDIA DGX H100 system with 8 H100 GPUs reaches 32 petaFLOPS FP8 AI

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AMD MI250X dual-GPU die at 47.9 TFLOPS FP64 peak

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Intel Ponte Vecchio (Max 1550) GPU at 56 TFLOPS FP64 Tensor

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Frontier supercomputer holds the current TOP500 #1 at 1.194 exaFLOPS Rmax as of June 2023

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Aurora supercomputer ranks #2 at 1.012 exaFLOPS Rmax in June 2023 TOP500 list

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Eagle supercomputer at 561.2 petaFLOPS Rmax, #3 on June 2023 TOP500

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Fugaku at 442.0 petaFLOPS Rmax, #4 in June 2023

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LUMI at 381.0 petaFLOPS Rmax, #5 June 2023 TOP500

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Frontier's Rp peak is 1.707 exaFLOPS in June 2023

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El Capitan projected at over 2 exaFLOPS, but current Leonardo at 233.3 petaFLOPS #6 June 2023

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Alps supercomputer at 204.8 petaFLOPS #7 June 2023 TOP500

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MareNostrum 5 at 175.5 petaFLOPS #9 June 2023

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Frontier uses 37,888 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs contributing to its exaFLOPS performance

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Aurora employs Intel Xeon Max CPUs and Data Center GPU Max for 1.012 exaFLOPS

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Summit at Oak Ridge has 27,648 NVIDIA V100 GPUs for 148.6 petaFLOPS Rmax current rank #13

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Perlmutter at NERSC delivers 64.6 petaFLOPS Rmax with AMD GPUs, rank #20 June 2023

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Frontier consumes 20.99 MW power for 1.194 exaFLOPS, efficiency 56.9 gigaFLOPS/W

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Japan's ABCI-Q at 95.2 petaFLOPS Rmax for quantum simulation, rank #26 June 2023

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China's OceanLite at 1.3 exaFLOPS AI performance but 125.4 petaFLOPS HPL #27

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Microsoft Azure Eagle at 561 petaFLOPS but HPL 561.2 petaFLOPS #3

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Nvidia-powered Isambard-AI at 132.0 petaFLOPS #18 June 2023 TOP500

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HPC6 at 110.4 petaFLOPS Rmax #24 June 2023

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AMD EPYC 7763 CPU in Frontier nodes contributes to overall calculating power

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HPE Cray EX architecture in Frontier enables 9.2 million cores

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Japan's Fugaku with A64FX processors at 442 petaFLOPS sustained

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European LUMI uses AMD MI250X GPUs for 381 petaFLOPS

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Selene at 63.5 petaFLOPS Rmax with NVIDIA A100 GPUs #33 June 2023

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Frontier supercomputer efficiency is 52.72 gigaFLOPS/W Green500 #1 June 2023

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Aurora at 49.03 gigaFLOPS/W #2 on Green500 June 2023

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Eagle achieves 46.18 gigaFLOPS/W efficiency #3 Green500 June 2023

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Alps at 40.60 gigaFLOPS/W #4 Green500, consumes less power per FLOP

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LUMI supercomputer at 38.99 gigaFLOPS/W #5 Green500 June 2023

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NVIDIA H100 GPU efficiency up to 1.98 TFLOPS/W FP64 Tensor

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AMD MI300X at 81.7 TFLOPS/W FP16 efficiency claimed

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Google TPU v5e at 2.5x better efficiency than v4, ~400 TFLOPS/W INT8

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Cerebras CS-3 wafer-scale at 1200 TFLOPS/W sparsity FP16

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Graphcore Bow IPU efficiency 500+ TOPS/W INT8

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Frontier total power draw 21 MW for 1.194 exaFLOPS

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Fugaku consumes 29.9 MW at 442 petaFLOPS, 14.8 gigaFLOPS/W

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Summit power 10.1 MW for 148.6 petaFLOPS, 14.7 gigaFLOPS/W

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Sunway TaihuLight used 15.37 MW for 93 petaFLOPS, 6.05 gigaFLOPS/W historical

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NVIDIA A100 SXM4 400W TDP for 19.5 TFLOPS FP64, ~48.75 GFLOPS/W

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AMD EPYC 9754 400W TDP dual socket ~8 GFLOPS/W FP64

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Intel Xeon 8592+ 350W TDP ~8.3 GFLOPS/W FP64 per socket

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Apple M1 Max 60W for 10.4 TFLOPS FP32, 173 GFLOPS/W GPU

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5nm process 4nm effective, ~640 GFLOPS/W mobile GPU

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IBM Power10 at 20.6 gigaFLOPS/W in TOP500 systems

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SiPearl Rhea 2.0 nm process target 50+ GFLOPS/W FP64

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El Capitan projected 2 exaFLOPS at under 30 MW, ~66 gigaFLOPS/W target

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Moore's Law predicts doubling of transistors every 2 years, implying ~1.86x computing power

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Exascale computing achieved 2022, zettascale targeted by 2030 at 10^21 FLOPS

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Quantum supremacy demonstrated by Google Sycamore at 53 qubits, 200s vs classical 10k years

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IBM roadmap to 100k+ logical qubits by 2033 for fault-tolerant quantum computing

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Landauer limit theoretical minimum energy 2.8 kT ln2 per bit erasure ~3 zJ/op at room temp

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Dennard scaling ended 2006, but 3D stacking to continue power efficiency gains

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Optical computing could reach 10^15 FLOPS/W vs electronic 10^12

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Neuromorphic computing like Intel Loihi 2 at 10^12 ops/W synaptic

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Frontier to El Capitan 2x performance at same power by 2025

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AMD roadmap MI400 series 5x AI performance over MI300 by 2026

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NVIDIA Rubin platform R100 GPU 30x inference perf over Hopper by 2026

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Intel 18A process 1.8nm for Xeon 6 by 2025, 20% perf/W gain

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TSMC A16 1.6nm node 10% speed 15-20% power reduction 2026

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Quantum annealers like D-Wave Advantage 5000+ qubits solve optimization 10^6x faster

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Photonic chips Lightmatter Passage 36 petaFLOPS FP16 at 10 kW

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Global supercomputing capacity to hit 10 exaFLOPS aggregate by 2025

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AI training FLOPS doubling every 6 months, 10x every 2 years per OpenAI

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Bekenstein bound limits info density 10^69 bits/m^3 black hole, theoretical compute limit

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Reversible computing could approach Landauer limit, 10^42 ops/J theoretical

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Planetary computing limit Bremermann's 10^50 FLOPS/kg matter

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Margolus-Levitin theorem 6×10^33 ops/J energy-time limit per op

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ExaEnergy project targets 60 gigaFLOPS/W sustainable by 2030

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Post-Moore photonics-neuromorphic hybrid 1000x efficiency by 2040

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The ENIAC computer, completed in 1945, had a peak performance of approximately 0.0000001 gigaFLOPS (100 kiloFLOPS)

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The Manchester Mark 1, operational in 1949, performed about 1.2 kiloFLOPS in floating-point operations

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The UNIVAC I, delivered in 1951, achieved around 0.000001 gigaFLOPS (1 kiloFLOPS) peak performance

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The IBM 701, introduced in 1953, delivered approximately 0.000016 gigaFLOPS (16 kiloFLOPS)

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The CDC 6600, launched in 1964, reached 3 megaFLOPS peak performance

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The Cray-1 supercomputer, released in 1976, had a peak speed of 160 megaFLOPS

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The Cray X-MP, introduced in 1982, achieved up to 940 megaFLOPS in multi-processor configuration

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The Connection Machine CM-5, deployed in 1991, scaled to 1.056 teraFLOPS with 1024 processors

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ASCI Red, completed in 1997, became the first teraFLOPS supercomputer at 1.338 teraFLOPS

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ASCI White, operational in 2000, peaked at 7.226 teraFLOPS

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Earth Simulator, launched in 2002, achieved 35.86 teraFLOPS on TOP500 list

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Blue Gene/L, reached 280.6 teraFLOPS in 2006

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Roadrunner supercomputer hit 1.026 petaFLOPS in 2008

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Tianhe-1A achieved 2.566 petaFLOPS in 2010

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Fujitsu K computer reached 10.51 petaFLOPS in 2011

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Titan supercomputer delivered 17.59 petaFLOPS in 2013

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Tianhe-2 peaked at 33.86 petaFLOPS in 2014

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Sunway TaihuLight achieved 93.01 petaFLOPS in 2016

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Summit supercomputer reached 122.3 petaFLOPS in 2018

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IBM Power9-based Sierra hit 94.64 petaFLOPS in 2018

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Frontier became the first exaFLOPS machine at 1.102 exaFLOPS in 2022

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The first TOP500 list in June 1993 was topped by TMC CM-5/1024 at 59.7 gigaFLOPS

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Intel Paragon XP/S 140 at 143.4 gigaFLOPS topped November 1993 list

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Numerical Wind Tunnel at 170.0 gigaFLOPS in June 1994

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Intel Paragon at 281.0 gigaFLOPS in November 1996

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ASCI Red at 1.340 teraFLOPS in June 1997

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ASCI Red sustained 1.064 teraFLOPS in November 1997

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ASCI Red at 2.382 teraFLOPS in June 1999

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ASCI Q reached 4.944 teraFLOPS projected in November 2001

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Earth Simulator at 35.860 teraFLOPS in June 2002

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Published Feb 13, 2026·Last verified Mar 31, 2026
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In the span of a single human lifetime, our capacity to calculate has soared from the room-filling ENIAC's hundred-thousand operations per second to the exascale frontier where today's supercomputers perform over a quintillion calculations in that same blink of an eye.

Key Takeaways

  • The ENIAC computer, completed in 1945, had a peak performance of approximately 0.0000001 gigaFLOPS (100 kiloFLOPS)
  • The Manchester Mark 1, operational in 1949, performed about 1.2 kiloFLOPS in floating-point operations
  • The UNIVAC I, delivered in 1951, achieved around 0.000001 gigaFLOPS (1 kiloFLOPS) peak performance
  • Frontier supercomputer holds the current TOP500 #1 at 1.194 exaFLOPS Rmax as of June 2023
  • Aurora supercomputer ranks #2 at 1.012 exaFLOPS Rmax in June 2023 TOP500 list
  • Eagle supercomputer at 561.2 petaFLOPS Rmax, #3 on June 2023 TOP500
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX scores 100 GFLOPS peak single CPU FP64
  • Intel Core i9-13900K achieves 1.7 TFLOPS FP32 peak with AVX-512
  • NVIDIA H100 SXM GPU delivers 67 TFLOPS FP64 Tensor Core performance
  • Frontier supercomputer efficiency is 52.72 gigaFLOPS/W Green500 #1 June 2023
  • Aurora at 49.03 gigaFLOPS/W #2 on Green500 June 2023
  • Eagle achieves 46.18 gigaFLOPS/W efficiency #3 Green500 June 2023
  • Moore's Law predicts doubling of transistors every 2 years, implying ~1.86x computing power
  • Exascale computing achieved 2022, zettascale targeted by 2030 at 10^21 FLOPS
  • Quantum supremacy demonstrated by Google Sycamore at 53 qubits, 200s vs classical 10k years

Computing power has exponentially increased from primitive kiloFLOPS to modern exaflop supercomputers.

CPU and GPU Performance

1AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX scores 100 GFLOPS peak single CPU FP64
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2Intel Core i9-13900K achieves 1.7 TFLOPS FP32 peak with AVX-512
Verified
3NVIDIA H100 SXM GPU delivers 67 TFLOPS FP64 Tensor Core performance
Verified
4AMD Instinct MI300X GPU reaches 163.4 TFLOPS FP16 peak
Verified
5Apple M2 Ultra chip peaks at 31.6 TFLOPS FP32 GPU performance
Verified
6Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ offers 2.9 TFLOPS FP64 per socket peak
Verified
7NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU achieves 19.5 TFLOPS FP64 with Tensor Cores
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8AMD EPYC 9754 (Genoa) peaks at 3.2 TFLOPS FP64 dual socket
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9Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 GPU at 3.2 TFLOPS FP32 peak for mobile
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10IBM Power10 processor delivers 5 TFLOPS FP64 per chip
Single source
11NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU reaches 82.6 TFLOPS FP16 peak shader
Verified
12AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 61 TFLOPS FP32 peak performance
Single source
13Intel Arc A770 GPU delivers 17.2 TFLOPS FP16 peak
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14ARM Neoverse V2 core in AWS Graviton3 peaks at 0.4 TFLOPS FP32 per core
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15Google Tensor Processing Unit v4 (Trillium) achieves 2.7 petaFLOPS FP16 per pod
Single source
16Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) delivers 20 petaFLOPS FP16 AI performance
Verified
17Graphcore IPU Colossus MK2 GC200 at 350 TOPS INT8 per chip
Verified
18SambaNova SN40L chip reaches 2 petaFLOPS FP16 per card
Single source
19Tenstorrent Grayskull at 114 TOPS INT8 peak performance
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20SiPearl Rhea CPU for HPC peaks at 1.7 TFLOPS FP64 per socket
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21Frontier's HPE Slingshot-11 interconnect enables 200 Gb/s per node for calculating power
Single source
22NVIDIA DGX H100 system with 8 H100 GPUs reaches 32 petaFLOPS FP8 AI
Directional
23AMD MI250X dual-GPU die at 47.9 TFLOPS FP64 peak
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24Intel Ponte Vecchio (Max 1550) GPU at 56 TFLOPS FP64 Tensor
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CPU and GPU Performance Interpretation

This dizzying array of silicon bragging rights reveals a computational arms race where the only universal truth is that your laptop is now officially a glorified abacus compared to these number-crunching behemoths.

Current Supercomputers

1Frontier supercomputer holds the current TOP500 #1 at 1.194 exaFLOPS Rmax as of June 2023
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2Aurora supercomputer ranks #2 at 1.012 exaFLOPS Rmax in June 2023 TOP500 list
Directional
3Eagle supercomputer at 561.2 petaFLOPS Rmax, #3 on June 2023 TOP500
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4Fugaku at 442.0 petaFLOPS Rmax, #4 in June 2023
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5LUMI at 381.0 petaFLOPS Rmax, #5 June 2023 TOP500
Verified
6Frontier's Rp peak is 1.707 exaFLOPS in June 2023
Single source
7El Capitan projected at over 2 exaFLOPS, but current Leonardo at 233.3 petaFLOPS #6 June 2023
Verified
8Alps supercomputer at 204.8 petaFLOPS #7 June 2023 TOP500
Verified
9MareNostrum 5 at 175.5 petaFLOPS #9 June 2023
Verified
10Frontier uses 37,888 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs contributing to its exaFLOPS performance
Directional
11Aurora employs Intel Xeon Max CPUs and Data Center GPU Max for 1.012 exaFLOPS
Verified
12Summit at Oak Ridge has 27,648 NVIDIA V100 GPUs for 148.6 petaFLOPS Rmax current rank #13
Verified
13Perlmutter at NERSC delivers 64.6 petaFLOPS Rmax with AMD GPUs, rank #20 June 2023
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14Frontier consumes 20.99 MW power for 1.194 exaFLOPS, efficiency 56.9 gigaFLOPS/W
Verified
15Japan's ABCI-Q at 95.2 petaFLOPS Rmax for quantum simulation, rank #26 June 2023
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16China's OceanLite at 1.3 exaFLOPS AI performance but 125.4 petaFLOPS HPL #27
Single source
17Microsoft Azure Eagle at 561 petaFLOPS but HPL 561.2 petaFLOPS #3
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18Nvidia-powered Isambard-AI at 132.0 petaFLOPS #18 June 2023 TOP500
Verified
19HPC6 at 110.4 petaFLOPS Rmax #24 June 2023
Directional
20AMD EPYC 7763 CPU in Frontier nodes contributes to overall calculating power
Single source
21HPE Cray EX architecture in Frontier enables 9.2 million cores
Verified
22Japan's Fugaku with A64FX processors at 442 petaFLOPS sustained
Verified
23European LUMI uses AMD MI250X GPUs for 381 petaFLOPS
Verified
24Selene at 63.5 petaFLOPS Rmax with NVIDIA A100 GPUs #33 June 2023
Verified

Current Supercomputers Interpretation

The global supercomputing race has now reached the exascale frontier, where power has become a public competition of precision engineering, national pride, and enormous electricity bills, all to make really, really difficult math look easy.

Energy Efficiency and Power Consumption

1Frontier supercomputer efficiency is 52.72 gigaFLOPS/W Green500 #1 June 2023
Directional
2Aurora at 49.03 gigaFLOPS/W #2 on Green500 June 2023
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3Eagle achieves 46.18 gigaFLOPS/W efficiency #3 Green500 June 2023
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4Alps at 40.60 gigaFLOPS/W #4 Green500, consumes less power per FLOP
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5LUMI supercomputer at 38.99 gigaFLOPS/W #5 Green500 June 2023
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6NVIDIA H100 GPU efficiency up to 1.98 TFLOPS/W FP64 Tensor
Verified
7AMD MI300X at 81.7 TFLOPS/W FP16 efficiency claimed
Verified
8Google TPU v5e at 2.5x better efficiency than v4, ~400 TFLOPS/W INT8
Verified
9Cerebras CS-3 wafer-scale at 1200 TFLOPS/W sparsity FP16
Verified
10Graphcore Bow IPU efficiency 500+ TOPS/W INT8
Verified
11Frontier total power draw 21 MW for 1.194 exaFLOPS
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12Fugaku consumes 29.9 MW at 442 petaFLOPS, 14.8 gigaFLOPS/W
Single source
13Summit power 10.1 MW for 148.6 petaFLOPS, 14.7 gigaFLOPS/W
Verified
14Sunway TaihuLight used 15.37 MW for 93 petaFLOPS, 6.05 gigaFLOPS/W historical
Verified
15NVIDIA A100 SXM4 400W TDP for 19.5 TFLOPS FP64, ~48.75 GFLOPS/W
Verified
16AMD EPYC 9754 400W TDP dual socket ~8 GFLOPS/W FP64
Directional
17Intel Xeon 8592+ 350W TDP ~8.3 GFLOPS/W FP64 per socket
Directional
18Apple M1 Max 60W for 10.4 TFLOPS FP32, 173 GFLOPS/W GPU
Verified
19Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5nm process 4nm effective, ~640 GFLOPS/W mobile GPU
Verified
20IBM Power10 at 20.6 gigaFLOPS/W in TOP500 systems
Single source
21SiPearl Rhea 2.0 nm process target 50+ GFLOPS/W FP64
Verified
22El Capitan projected 2 exaFLOPS at under 30 MW, ~66 gigaFLOPS/W target
Verified

Energy Efficiency and Power Consumption Interpretation

In the relentless pursuit of computational might, the supercomputing arena reveals a stark hierarchy of efficiency, where the Frontier system's crown for doing the most with each watt is being challenged by specialized accelerators claiming efficiency numbers so high they seem to belong to a different league entirely.

Future Projections and Theoretical Limits

1Moore's Law predicts doubling of transistors every 2 years, implying ~1.86x computing power
Verified
2Exascale computing achieved 2022, zettascale targeted by 2030 at 10^21 FLOPS
Verified
3Quantum supremacy demonstrated by Google Sycamore at 53 qubits, 200s vs classical 10k years
Verified
4IBM roadmap to 100k+ logical qubits by 2033 for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Verified
5Landauer limit theoretical minimum energy 2.8 kT ln2 per bit erasure ~3 zJ/op at room temp
Single source
6Dennard scaling ended 2006, but 3D stacking to continue power efficiency gains
Directional
7Optical computing could reach 10^15 FLOPS/W vs electronic 10^12
Verified
8Neuromorphic computing like Intel Loihi 2 at 10^12 ops/W synaptic
Directional
9Frontier to El Capitan 2x performance at same power by 2025
Verified
10AMD roadmap MI400 series 5x AI performance over MI300 by 2026
Verified
11NVIDIA Rubin platform R100 GPU 30x inference perf over Hopper by 2026
Verified
12Intel 18A process 1.8nm for Xeon 6 by 2025, 20% perf/W gain
Directional
13TSMC A16 1.6nm node 10% speed 15-20% power reduction 2026
Verified
14Quantum annealers like D-Wave Advantage 5000+ qubits solve optimization 10^6x faster
Single source
15Photonic chips Lightmatter Passage 36 petaFLOPS FP16 at 10 kW
Directional
16Global supercomputing capacity to hit 10 exaFLOPS aggregate by 2025
Verified
17AI training FLOPS doubling every 6 months, 10x every 2 years per OpenAI
Verified
18Bekenstein bound limits info density 10^69 bits/m^3 black hole, theoretical compute limit
Verified
19Reversible computing could approach Landauer limit, 10^42 ops/J theoretical
Single source
20Planetary computing limit Bremermann's 10^50 FLOPS/kg matter
Verified
21Margolus-Levitin theorem 6×10^33 ops/J energy-time limit per op
Single source
22ExaEnergy project targets 60 gigaFLOPS/W sustainable by 2030
Verified
23Post-Moore photonics-neuromorphic hybrid 1000x efficiency by 2040
Verified

Future Projections and Theoretical Limits Interpretation

We are in the breathtakingly clever phase where our computing ambitions have outpaced even our best metaphors, simultaneously chasing the ghostly potential of quantum supremacy and the sobering physical limits of thermodynamics, all while patching the fading legacy of Moore's Law with a dazzling quilt of quantum, photonic, and neuromorphic architectures.

Historical Milestones

1The ENIAC computer, completed in 1945, had a peak performance of approximately 0.0000001 gigaFLOPS (100 kiloFLOPS)
Single source
2The Manchester Mark 1, operational in 1949, performed about 1.2 kiloFLOPS in floating-point operations
Directional
3The UNIVAC I, delivered in 1951, achieved around 0.000001 gigaFLOPS (1 kiloFLOPS) peak performance
Verified
4The IBM 701, introduced in 1953, delivered approximately 0.000016 gigaFLOPS (16 kiloFLOPS)
Directional
5The CDC 6600, launched in 1964, reached 3 megaFLOPS peak performance
Single source
6The Cray-1 supercomputer, released in 1976, had a peak speed of 160 megaFLOPS
Single source
7The Cray X-MP, introduced in 1982, achieved up to 940 megaFLOPS in multi-processor configuration
Directional
8The Connection Machine CM-5, deployed in 1991, scaled to 1.056 teraFLOPS with 1024 processors
Verified
9ASCI Red, completed in 1997, became the first teraFLOPS supercomputer at 1.338 teraFLOPS
Directional
10ASCI White, operational in 2000, peaked at 7.226 teraFLOPS
Verified
11Earth Simulator, launched in 2002, achieved 35.86 teraFLOPS on TOP500 list
Verified
12Blue Gene/L, reached 280.6 teraFLOPS in 2006
Single source
13Roadrunner supercomputer hit 1.026 petaFLOPS in 2008
Directional
14Tianhe-1A achieved 2.566 petaFLOPS in 2010
Single source
15Fujitsu K computer reached 10.51 petaFLOPS in 2011
Verified
16Titan supercomputer delivered 17.59 petaFLOPS in 2013
Single source
17Tianhe-2 peaked at 33.86 petaFLOPS in 2014
Directional
18Sunway TaihuLight achieved 93.01 petaFLOPS in 2016
Directional
19Summit supercomputer reached 122.3 petaFLOPS in 2018
Directional
20IBM Power9-based Sierra hit 94.64 petaFLOPS in 2018
Verified
21Frontier became the first exaFLOPS machine at 1.102 exaFLOPS in 2022
Verified
22The first TOP500 list in June 1993 was topped by TMC CM-5/1024 at 59.7 gigaFLOPS
Directional
23Intel Paragon XP/S 140 at 143.4 gigaFLOPS topped November 1993 list
Verified
24Numerical Wind Tunnel at 170.0 gigaFLOPS in June 1994
Directional
25Intel Paragon at 281.0 gigaFLOPS in November 1996
Verified
26ASCI Red at 1.340 teraFLOPS in June 1997
Verified
27ASCI Red sustained 1.064 teraFLOPS in November 1997
Verified
28ASCI Red at 2.382 teraFLOPS in June 1999
Directional
29ASCI Q reached 4.944 teraFLOPS projected in November 2001
Directional
30Earth Simulator at 35.860 teraFLOPS in June 2002
Verified

Historical Milestones Interpretation

The breathtaking speed at which we've rocketed from needing an entire room to calculate a single artillery trajectory to casually simulating supernovas on a desktop proves that humanity's appetite for computational power is the ultimate exponential curve—our ambitions outrace our machines almost as soon as we build them.

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AI consensus: 4 of 4 models fully agree

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Diana Reeves. "Calculating Power Statistics." Gitnux, 13 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/calculating-power-statistics.
Chicago
Diana Reeves. 2026. "Calculating Power Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/calculating-power-statistics.

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