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The M4 chip is capable of 38 TOPS - that’s 38,000,000,000,000 operations per second.

If that sounds like a staggeringly massive number, well, it is!

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Adobe’s Firefly generative AI tool can be hardware-accelerated by your device’s NPU.

How is TOPS calculated?

The current industry standard for calculating TOPS isTOPS = 2 MAC unit count Frequency / 1 trillion.

Every NPU has a set number of MAC units determined by the NPU’s microarchitecture.

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Adobe’s Firefly generative AI tool can be hardware-accelerated by your device’s NPU.

Simply put, more TOPS means better, faster AI performance.

Why is TOPS important?

It should be noted that TOPS is by no means a perfect metric.