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chungus_khan on March 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with...

Nearly 10 years ago a 2.6 TFLOP (FP32) GTX 660ti cost about $300 and had a TDP of 150w.

thitcanh on March 5, 2021 | [–]

Kinda proving my point then? Power usage 15x higher and $300 is just for a card that is probably as big as a whole Mac Mini.

Now add the rest of the components and the prices, wattage and size shoots up exactly as described.

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