NPU, TOPS, and Tokens Per Second: What Your AI Laptop’s Spec Sheet Doesn’t Tell You (2026)
中文摘要
AI笔记本的TOPS参数并不能衡量速度，实际决定本地AI模型性能的关键指标是每秒生成的Token数。
English Summary
TOPS ratings are misleading; the actual metric for local AI model performance is tokens per second, not just NPU speed.
Original Excerpt
45 TOPS. 50 TOPS. 80 TOPS. It looks like a speed rating. It isn’t. Here’s the number that actually decides how fast a local AI model runs… Continue reading on Medium »