{"id":244191,"date":"2026-09-18T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-benchmark-puts-quantum-computers-to-the-test-and-reveals-their-limitations"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:26:34","slug":"new-benchmark-puts-quantum-computers-to-the-test-and-reveals-their-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-benchmark-puts-quantum-computers-to-the-test-and-reveals-their-limitations","title":{"rendered":"New benchmark puts quantum computers to the test and reveals their limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-benchmark-puts-quantum-computers-to-the-test-and-reveals-their-limitations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers are no longer theoretical concepts. Today, they are being developed to tackle a range of complex problems, including exploring financial risk, modeling complex molecules and optimizing massive logistics networks. However, until now, there has been no way to benchmark the computational power of different systems on the same scale to see how they compare.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Sandia National Laboratories in the U.S. has devised a universal testing standard that provides an apples-to-apples performance measure. They put Google, IBM and Quantinuum hardware through the benchmark and not only found significant gaps between them but also discovered that current systems were still miles away from solving real-world problems.<\/p>\n<p>The team calls its test Quantum Universal Operation Performance System, or QUOPS for short. It is designed to measure the size of the largest computationally relevant quantum circuits a quantum computer can successfully run, as well as the speed at which it can complete those operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers are no longer theoretical concepts. Today, they are being developed to tackle a range of complex problems, including exploring financial risk, modeling complex molecules and optimizing massive logistics networks. However, until now, there has been no way to benchmark the computational power of different systems on the same scale to see how they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}