Publicly available manufacturer specifications for 1,800+ NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs to visualize the evolution of single-precision floating-point performance (GFLOPS) over the past 18 years.
Highlights:
GPU performance grew from ~497 GFLOPS in 2007 to over 100,000 GFLOPS in 2025
Major performance leaps occurred with microarchitectural shifts.
Methodology:
GFLOPS calculated from shader counts and core clock speeds:
GFLOPS = (Shader Units × Core Clock × 2) / 1,000,000,000
Highlights:
GPU performance grew from ~497 GFLOPS in 2007 to over 100,000 GFLOPS in 2025
Major performance leaps occurred with microarchitectural shifts.
Methodology: GFLOPS calculated from shader counts and core clock speeds: GFLOPS = (Shader Units × Core Clock × 2) / 1,000,000,000