[phonon]

Supercomputers are measured based on 64 bit floating point operations. Here they (inaptly) compared it to their 8 bit floating point operations (which are only useful for AI workloads).

[zifpanachr23]

Gotcha. That makes a lot more sense. I was led to believe by the wording of the comparison that they were the same operations. Appreciate the explanation.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

Why is it inapt?

If all you care about is an 8-bit AI workload (there's definitely a market for that), it's nice to have 24x the speed.

[remus]

It's an apples to oranges comparison.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

It's apples to apples if you care about 8-bit (a lot of people do these days).

AFAIK, there wasn't a faster 8-bit super computer to compare to - which is why they made the comparison.