As above.
Bigger fabrication process = higher flops
;ie32nm>28nm Or higher clock speed with same power
consumption?
Fabrication process doesn't determine FLOPS, chip architecture
and clock speed do. Like the Core 2 series Conroe and Wolfdale 65nm
and 45nm, at the same clock speeds, they performed similarly. The
higher-clocked variants did better though. Fabrication process
affects power consumption and die size, like how the 980X, built on
the 32nm process, has similar power consumption as the 920 built on
the 45nm process, and is also smaller than the 920.
All applications use FLOPS. Just matters to what extent. Like
doing [email protected] uses up lots of FLOPS as compared to, say,
Excel.