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Amazing Fact of the Day (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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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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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Agree with you; there's some classics from the 8 bit era and its a cool project to build your own way back emulation machine. I did one 8 years ago and I put it into an arcade cabinet. It gets used at parties as everyone can pick up and have a go.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's fantastic. One of the best moments in my life was discovering a comprehensive archive of Apple ][ game images. So. Many. Games. So many, sometimes it's hard to find a specific one if you remember the game but not the name.

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