Seriously? Bitcoin that has intentionally low transaction throuput is only two orders of magnitude slower than largest online payment processor that was designed with highest possible throuput in mind?
VisaNet will do 76,000 tps - 4 orders of magnitude.
It is based on usage statistics not a technical benchmark. That number is not their peak throughput capacity it's how many transactions they actually do, which I'd wager is bottle-necked by user adoption not by tech.