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.
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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
Love that! Thanks for sharing.