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Titan Z can do 8 teraflops. From the Top500 List - June 2001, the #1 system at Lawrence Livermore could do R(max) 7 teraflops and R(peak) 12 teraflops.

I now see that I missed the gist of this, which was about mobile performance. The Tegra X1 can do a teraflop, which would put it at #2 on the Top500 List - June 1998.

Tegra K1 is 365 GFLOPs @ 950 MHz. Tegra X1 is > 1 TFLOP @ ~1GHz.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9289/the-nvidia-shield-android...

"LINPACK" (without qualification) is a double-precision benchmark, and doesn't measure raw compute flops, but what is actually achieved solving a linear system. K1 does double-precision at a rate of 1/24, and good libraries typically achieve ~90% of rpeak on similar hardware, so something around 13.7 gflops is a reasonable estimate.

And the latest Tegra X1 is twice as powerful as the K1, which was already an amazing chip.

The even more amazing part is the energy usage of these new mobile chips.