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Capacity/peak vs average tps. Visa says they process "150 million transactions every day in 175 currencies" (see page 3 at https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/downlo
by e1g 4y ago
Capacity/peak vs average tps.
Visa says they process "150 million transactions every day in 175 currencies" (see page 3 at https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visanet-technology/visa-net-booklet.pdf https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...). That's ~1,800 per second. Mastercard is smaller, so this would be the upper limit for them. Both combined should still fit into "a few thousand transactions per second".
- azylman 4y agoThat doc is from 2013, so it's pretty out of date.
- e1g 4y agoTrue. The latest financial report from Visa [1] says 164.7B transactions in 2021, or ~5,000 per second. This number is 3x larger! Mastercard is slightly smaller, but comparable at 140B [2]. [1] https://annualreport.visa.com/financials/default.aspx https://annualreport.visa.com/financials/default.aspx [2] https://s25.q4cdn.com/479285134/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/2Q22-Mastercard-Supplemental-Operational-Performance-Data.pdf https://s25.q4cdn.com/479285134/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...
- azylman 4y agoYup, that's a lot closer to the kind of numbers I would have expected. And if you look at peak it's probably at least 10k tps for each of them.