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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sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
The games on those old computers were better, too, proving you can’t make something good just by throwing power at it. Emulators are popular for a reason.
BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
sxan@midwest.social 1 week 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.