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Shockingly, it was as far back as 2008 that AMD released the Radeon HD 4800 series that first broke the tflop barrier for GPUs.

As far as our individual perceptions of time though, I agree, it still doesn't feel like that long; but most of the advances in compute performance since then largely feel wasted so that probably has a lot to do with it IMO.




2008 was closer to the SNES UK launch date than it is to now


The modern equivalent of β€˜the birth of Christ is closer in time to the modern day than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.’




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