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In most features, my smartphone is about x1,000 more powerful than my ZX81 (from '81). RAM, "ROM", clockspeed. Accounting for no hardware fp (Z80), I estimated
by hyperpallium 11y ago
In most features, my smartphone is about x1,000 more powerful than my ZX81 (from '81). RAM, "ROM", clockspeed. Accounting for no hardware fp (Z80), I estimated that my smartphone's GPU is about x1,000,000 the FLOPS.
And high-end consumer video cards are about x1,000,000,000 ... which is about, or a little less, what one of the Moore's law corollaries predicts for 35 years, 1981 to 2016, per $.
- johansch 11y agoRAM: x1,000,000 (1 GB is medium-end in phones these days, and the ZX81 had 1kB.)
- hyperpallium 11y agowhoa, that was a significant error.