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I believe both MIPS and FLOPS are metrices for calculating processor speed. What is the difference between them? Are they in any way related or dependent on each other?

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Unasked, but note that a CPU with more MIPS may be slower than another different CPU with less MIPS. MIPS just counts instrctions per second. Now how much useful work can be done per instruction. – Hennes Oct 16 '12 at 15:19

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Study them using google and you will find out a lot from using the full forms,

MIPS=millions of instructions per second

FLOPS= floating point operations per second

mips talks about instructions which could be any type of instruction.

flops talks about a specific type of operation present in the instruction which is related to decimal numbers.

so they are not related in measuring as both use different reference points.

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Thanks Doopy Doo! Why are FLOPS taken as a measure though? Shouldnt MIPS be more accurate in that case? – open_sourse Oct 25 '12 at 21:15

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