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Amazing Fact of the Day (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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The combined computing power of **every ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 ever sold — over 22 million machines — is still 47,000 times weaker than a single NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU.

Those iconic 8-bit legends that shaped the childhoods (and careers) of millions delivered about 0.0022 TFLOPS of raw compute power — together. Meanwhile, the RTX 5090, built for today's AI and graphics workloads, pushes 104.8 TFLOPS on its own.

What a time to be alive.

#TechEvolution #AI #GPUs #ZXSpectrum #Commodore64 #NVIDIA #RTX5090 #ComputingHistory #ExponentialGrowth

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's crazy.

Since GPUs got into the TFLOP range I often think of this old magazine cover:

https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/500004286-03-01.jpg?w=600

[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Love that! Thanks for sharing.