The Cray-1 was measured on 64-bit FLOPS, so you would have to do apples-to-apples (heh). A modern iPhone can do 300 GF of 64-bit, so only 2000x.

The iPhone 4 was probably the first that could beat a Cray-1, and it was by a narrow margin. However, that was only a 32-bit chip. The next year iPhones went 64-bit, and it was all over.

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gcanyon an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We live in an amazing era, where the limit to what we can do is (almost?) more what we can imagine to do than what we are actually able to do.

	▲	dmd 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		oh, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what is a heaven for?

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ciupicri 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is also the issue of cooling. The iPhone will need extra cooling in order to function at full speed for more than a few minutes.

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ck2 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I genuinely love r/TheyDidTheMath corrections, thank you!

(now calculate it in iphone charger plug computing power heh > lunar lander)