at this point its more about what metric of powerful are you comparing to? for example, nobody wants a liquid nitrogen cooled 8 gigahertz CPU any more. and meas

at this point its more about what metric of powerful are you comparing to? for example, nobody wants a liquid nitrogen cooled 8 gigahertz CPU any more. and measuring "flops" isn't that useful either. the old Silicon Graphics machines didn't have a single GPU in them and would not be able to render shaders or have/manipulate rasterized textures of basically any resolution, they just threw a lot of energy at a problem for a now-antiquated and useless approach to that problem. and finally, if you make something with a bunch custom chips with a bunch of pins with high bandwidth, then you don't have another metric to compare to something else. I'm open to the thought exercise but I can predict which directions the conversation would go, I'm just content with the variety of metrics on CPUmark these days.