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Message 34536 - Posted: 1 Jan 2014 | 17:02:23 UTC

Measured floating point speed or
Measured integer speed

my second question is which one pertains to the memory and the other the gpu or are they both chip speeds.

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Message 34537 - Posted: 1 Jan 2014 | 17:05:00 UTC - in response to Message 34536.

i woke up today and figured both chip speeds but you never know, any other information would be welcome

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Message 34540 - Posted: 1 Jan 2014 | 18:39:39 UTC - in response to Message 34537.

Both numbers refer to the chip. Which one is more important depends on the type of calculations you want to do. If the calculations are predominantly floating point calculations then the floating point speed is more important. If they are mostly integer calculations then integer speed is more important.

Actually, that last sentence is not quite right. Since integer speed is invariably higher than floating point I think it's better to say, if they are mostly integer calculations then floating point speed is less important.

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Message 34544 - Posted: 1 Jan 2014 | 21:02:13 UTC - in response to Message 34536.

Measured floating point speed or
Measured integer speed

The measurements above are about the speed of the CPU.

my second question is which one pertains to the memory and the other the gpu or are they both chip speeds.

If you mean the CPU as the "chip" then both.
The speed of the GPU is reported as "GFlops peak".

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