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The processing power of the human brain is actually on the order of a few petaflops. So, you know, Gibson was only off by a factor of a few million. We can now match petaflopsâthe worldâs fastest supercomputer is actually about 30 petaflops.
A regular computer performing the same amount of calculations the same way the brain does would take more than 40 million times the energy that the brain uses. More facts about the human brain 1  : The brain can perform about 10 16 synapse operations per second using only that 10 to 25 watts of power.2  The 10-watt number might be the source of the myth that humans use only 10 percent of their brains. 3  The brain has more than 1,000 trillion synaptic connections. The 10-watt number might be the source of the myth that humans use only 10 percent of their brains. 2  Actually, almost all parts of the human brain operate to some degree at all times. 3  The brain has more than 1,000 trillion synaptic connections.