Not exactly the point but current smartphones are comparable to 90s supercomputers in terms of FLOPs - an iPhone 14 can hit 2 TFLOPs whereas ASCI Red achieved 2

Not exactly the point but current smartphones are comparable to 90s supercomputers in terms of FLOPs - an iPhone 14 can hit 2 TFLOPs whereas ASCI Red achieved 2.38 TFLOPs in 1999. Now the comparison is muddied by the fact that supercomputer GFLOPs were fp64 while modern GPUs are optimised for fp32 (with machine learning going for fp16 and now fp8), and the iPhone probably can’t maintain 2 TFLOPs before getting thermally throttled. But otherwise matching the 90s is far more impressive than the 70s.