title: Is there any difference in execution times between two different processors with same amount of gigaflops?
body: <p>I have a hardware related question that I debated with a friend.</p>
  
  <p>Consider two processors from two different manufacturers with the same amount of gigaflops put into the same computers (i.e. RAM and such as are the same for both computers).</p>
  
  <p>Now given a simple program will there be any difference in execution times between the two computers with the same processors. I.e. will the two computers handle the code differently (for-loops, while-loops, if-statements and such)?</p>
  
  <p>And if, is that difference noticably or can one say that the computers would approximately perform the same?</p>