B Grade B
Quantinuum Helios: QUOPS
1,504 QUOPS score
As stated in the source: “Q = 1504 at 303 QUOPS/s (width 16). With leakage postselection: 1504 at 344 QUOPS/s; 1824 at 247 QUOPS/s.”
Caveats
Preprint (v1, 10 Sep 2026), not peer reviewed. New benchmark defined and run by a team that includes the maker of two of the four machines (Quantinuum). Scores depend on compilation/routing effort chosen by each team. Rate methods differ by platform (reserved-window wall clock for Quantinuum; dedicated rate run with 500k shots for Willow; QPU usage time with batch approximation for ibm_boston), so rates are not strictly like-for-like.
- Set-up
- Helios-1. Physical qubits, width w=16, passing shape (16,1504); 20 QUOPS circuits x 200 shots (4000 shots); timed run in reserved window, runtime 284 min (SI Table VI). Rate 303 QUOPS/s.
- Method
- QUOPS v1 (arXiv:2609.12146v1), physical-qubit architecture
- Compared only with
- results in the group “v1 physical”
- Measured
- 2 June 2026
- Published
- 10 September 2026
- Measured by
- Quantinuum (co-authors of the Sandia-led paper)
- Independent of the maker
- No
- Peer-reviewed
- No
- Repeated by others
- Not yet
Source
Benchmarking the computational power of quantum computers, arXiv. Preprint. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.12146
Comparable results
| Machine | Value | Set-up | Published | Measured by | Grade | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantinuum H2 | 1,320 | v1 physical | 10 Sep 2026 | Maker | B | r-000050 |
| Google Willow | 216 | v1 physical | 10 Sep 2026 | Maker | B | r-000051 |
| IBM Heron r3 | 204 | v1 physical | 10 Sep 2026 | Independent | B | r-000052 |
History
- 27 October 2026: added
Spotted a mistake? Report an error, quoting r-000048.