If I'm reading this correctly, the Snapdragon 865+ mobile processor (1.4 TFLOPS single precision) is as fast as the ASCII Red supercomputer (1.06 TFLOPS) that was the fastest supercomputer in 1997. I'm not sure if Red's TFLOP rating is single precision or double, but that's nuts.
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Intel 486DX 66Mhz had around 1.74 MFLOPS. That would ut the Snapdragon at almost 800,000 times faster.
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What's your source for the 1.4tflops #? I didn't find it. The closest source I found suggested performance around 12,000 MFlops, which would be 12 Gflops, not 1.2 TFlops. That seems a bit more in line with the trajectory of Moore's law.
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Thanks! That really does seem remarkable. I think the page I looked at was assessing anticiapted performance before the chip or its full specs had come out, or maybe it was per-core performance?
I guess it will take a while to catch up with ASCI's 1200GB of RAM though!
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Yeah -- it is hard to just do apples to apples comparisons with just raw numbers because you have a lot of other parts of the equation like the CPU operations, etc. But I thought it was pretty impressive. I'm sure ASCII RED was more performant overall but it shows that the mobile