Flops don't mean anything in isolation, but are interesting nonetheless.
AMD thinks we need 1 million times more GPU power before graphics will be the same as looking into a mirror.
Here's a (rough) chart of GPU/Graphics Card power from 1995 to 2019.
1995 is represented by Nvidia NV1/SG1000: 0.024 GFlops
2019 is Nvidia Titan RTX: 16312 GFlops
That's a
679,667x increase in 24 years.
The first 1 GFlop card was ATi Rage Fury Maxx in 2000, since then, we've seen an average increase of 88% in GPU compute per year.
To reach 1 million times today's top level card, that card would need 16,000,000 GFlops, 16,000TFlops, or 16PetaFlops.
On our current trajectory, a 16PetaFlop GPU should be available in...
2030
I'll be happy enough with my 1PetaFlop card in or around May of 2025.