The Xbox Series X and PS5 both promise to be significant generational leaps, and one of the most talked about performance metrics for each console is TFLOPS, spoken as “teraflops.” This number is a performance metric for processors, but what it means and how an increase in this number translates into gaming performance can be a little confusing.
The teraflop discussion has been making the rounds again lately, as Xbox chief Phil Spencer revealed that the Xbox Series X specs will include “12 TFLOPS of GPU performance.” So here’s everything you need to know about teraflops, and how they’ll impact your PS5 and Xbox Series X experience.
Without getting into the complex math behind the name, FLOPS are FLOating Point operations per Second which is a measure of a processor’s ability to do math with dynamic number ranges. A teraFLOP is 1012 floating point operations per second.
Naturally, the bigger this number is, the more computational power a processor is going to have and we’ve only recently gotten to the point in consumer tech where double-digit teraflops are a realistic thing to talk about.
Yes, and this is why Microsoft is very quick to toss out that figure. The company was also quick to mention the Xbox One X’s still-impressive 6 teraflops. Doubling that figure to 12 puts the Series X out in front of any other consumer graphics processor on the market, even for PC. And when Series X launches in holiday 2020, it’ll likely be the most powerful gaming setup you can buy anywhere near its assumed price range of $500 – $600.
This is where things get a little murky because the exact nature of performance also depends heavily on all the other components in the machine, like memory, read/write speed and other elements of the graphics processor aside from the raw number of operations it can perform. Any console or gaming PC will only be as powerful as its weakest component.
It’s also not a one-to-one comparison with other processor architectures, meaning you can’t directly compare the 12 teraflops of an AMD RDNA processor, like the one you’ll find in an Xbox Series X, to the FLOP number on an Nvidia GPU. However, the Series X’s primary competitor, PlayStation 5, will use a very similar processor with likely fewer teraflops.
Microsoft seems determined to keep the upperhand in the hardware arms race. Depending on a host of other factors like hardware adoption rates and developer incentive to leverage all of Xbox Series X’s power, we could see a noticeable performance gap between Series X and PS5 due in part to the high teraflop count.
The teraflop stat also comes backed by a very impressive feature set. Thanks to hardware upgrades like a solid state hard drive for faster load times and software features like DirectX Ray Tracing support, you’ll see a significant performance increase with Xbox Series X over Xbox One.
Sony has yet to reveal just how many teraflops of GPU power the PS5 will offer, and rumors around the spec have varied. A recent rumor making the rounds on ResetEra pegs the PS5 at around 9 TFLOPS, which would give the Xbox Series X an edge. However, an old rumor from a Pastebin post discovered (via Notebookcheck) in 2019 pegs the PS5 as having a whopping 14 teraflops of performance, which would put it ahead of Microsoft’s machine. We should know more about exactly how the PS5 stacks up to the Xbox Series X as both consoles’ holiday 2020 launch draws closer.
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Leaving her elderly father on a basement floor for two days in a soiled adult diaper won’t mean jail for a Calgary woman.
Justice Indra Maharaj accepted a joint Crown and defence submission on Wednesday for a two-year-less-a-day conditional sentence order for Tara Picard to be followed by 12 months of probation.
Prosecutor Donna Spaner and defence counsel Shaun Leochko proposed a community-based term which will include eight months of 24-hour house arrest followed by a nightly curfew for the second eight months.
Maharaj also agreed with the lawyers to order Picard to commit 300 hours of community service over the length of the three-year sentence.
The Calgary Court of Justice noted that amount of community-service hours was “a lot” to commit to.
But Maharaj said it showed Picard, 52, was truly remorseful for her conduct towards her father, whom Postmedia is not identifying because of the embarrassing nature of the facts of the case.
“What that shows me is Ms. Picard does sincerely recognize what has happened here,” the judge said of her willingness to complete community service.
“What I interpret from that is Ms. Picard’s willingness to give back to the community.”
Picard pleaded guilty in January to charges of assault and failing to provide the necessaries of life to her 77-year-old father.
Court heard caregivers found the elderly Calgary man on the basement floor of his daughter’s southeast home wearing a soiled adult diaper.
At the time, Picard was responsible for her father’s day-to-day care after he was moved to her residence, Spaner, reading from a statement of agreed facts, told court at the time.
“He had a number of medical ailments, including non-insulin dependent diabetes, coronary artery disease, some early onset dementia-like symptoms and chronic alcoholism,” Spaner said.
“(He) had been living independently in a Calgary apartment building. Family members became concerned that he was not caring for himself safely.”
With the help of Alberta Health Services he was moved to a home where Picard resided.
A registered nurse assigned to his care attended the 38 Street S.E. home on Nov. 15, 2021, to drop off food bank supplies for him and was told he was sleeping downstairs.
When the nurse called about an hour and a half later and spoke to the man on the phone he said he was lying on the floor, had fallen and was unable to get up.
When she returned to the home with a co-worker she found the victim lying on his back on the floor.
“(He) said that he had been lying on the floor for two days,” Spaner said.
Leochko said Picard was overwhelmed by the situation she was thrust into.
“It really was more than she could handle,” he said.
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@juanhall: I gotta say, this was the most interesting bike in this post….love that Intense is experimenting with gearboxes…I can see it have a huge effect on DH bikes….thank god there’s still people pushing things. Now, they need to make an Enduro bike with the Pinion MGU!
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The City of Pointe-Claire would like to inform you that the Bob-Birnie arena will be closed for its annual maintenance as of Monday, April 29. The Annex rink will reopen to the public on Monday, May 13, and the arena’s Main rink will be accessible as of Monday, June 3.
Public skating will resume on May 13, and the summer public activities programming will begin on June 3 when both rinks have reopened to the public.
In addition to the annual maintenance of the facility, two renovation projects are also scheduled to start at the same time:
Installation of new sound systems
The City will be replacing its current sound systems in both the Main rink and Annex rink, to offer arena visitors a better overall experience, whether watching from the stands or participating in on-ice activities. This project is expected to be conducted throughout the month of May.
Renovation of locker rooms in the Main Rink
The City will also be renovating the five locker rooms located in the Main rink, to bring up to date the amenities currently available to participants. These renovations are expected to begin in early May and will be completed by mid-August.
For all information about the Bob-Birnie arena, visit the arena’s page on our website.
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