And we have another noob comparing cpu with gpu, comparing bitcoin mining with things wich require tons of memory and super fast connections between cores...
The next comparison will be "omg a ferrari is better than a tir for hauling things: it goes much faster than the tir!"?
Check that again, the table states figures are a corrected value to give a flops representation of non floating point operations. In terms of hashes per second bitcoin is well ahead of any other system, good luck using that as a benchmark though, I doubt you'll find many takers.
Correction is the root of all evil.
There are three people standing in a line. Would you weigh them and then use a table to give the "corrected value" of the number of people? Or would you count them? Counting is easy, the FLOP count for bitcoin is still zero. Zero FLOPS, zero FLOPD, zero FLOPY.
If you still insist on "correcting" the value, explain your correction scheme, and justify why you picked it instead of the other options available to you.* Do you convert by considering how many integer operations it would take to emulate the corresponding floating point operation in the same chip? Do you look at the idle FPU and calculate how much work it could be doing if it was doing work?
Do you take work distribution and networking into account? Why or why not? "Official" FLOPS scores are found by using a brutal test suite that requires an extensive amount of coordination and control, while bitcoin is looking for a magic needle with an army of needle factories, each of which is allowed to run with almost zero coordination. The bitcoin network is simply not suitable for LINPACK.
Bitcoin is an amazing system, and viewed as a whole, the network uses a staggering amount of computing power. But all of that power is being applied to a problem that was chosen very carefully to allow the network to exist and function. We are awesome at what we do, the best in the world by leaps and bounds, and not even the largest HPC clusters can match what we do. But we can't match what they do either.
* Yes, I am fully aware that no one in this thread is doing the correction. My point is that the correction is unphysical, even when your source is trying really hard to do it well.
We should focus on solving world peace.
