computational power

Digital calculation strength

Computational power is the capacity of a computer or system to perform calculations and process data.

Greater computational power means faster processing, more complex operations, or handling larger datasets.

The term appears in discussions of hardware capability, artificial intelligence, and scientific simulation: The project requires enormous computational power.

Also called computing power.

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latency · parallel processing · artificial intelligence · cryptography · transistor · energy efficiency · Moore's Law · neural networks · scalability · cores · throughput · clock speed · supercomputer · data center · cache memory · benchmarking · motherboard · processing speed

Opposites
processing capability

computational powerunderpowered

Lacking adequate force

technological sophistication

computational powermental arithmetic

Computing numbers without tools

abacus · slide rule · pen and paper · pencil and paper

resource type

computational powermemory

Mind's retention capacity

storage · storage capacity · RAM · bandwidth · memory capacity

Family

computation, computational, compute, computed, computer, computers, computing, computable, computes

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