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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1200GB of RAM for Red is actually a lot lower than I would have guessed. I have at least that amount of RAM across all the servers in my basement right now. (Around 2.5TB of RAM in total).
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Damn, I'm still chugging along with my 10yo i5 and 16gb, maybe I ought to get another computer since it's a new decade
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Memory prices have been dropping quite a bit. In fact, you can get 32GB SODIMMS now for like $135 each and most modern Intel and AMD CPUS will allow 64GB of memory for your laptop, NUC, etc.
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