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Systems07 Jan 2025 | 19
TOPS is short for Trillion Operations Per Second. In the context of AI, each operation typically uses INT8 values, which are each equivalent to signed bytes. Thus TOPS is a measurement of AI performance by hardware and software. An AI system capable of 40 TOPS is expected to perform 40 trillion operations per second using INT8 precision.