Moore's Law in Motion

80 years of computing power, from the 27-ton machine that cracked artillery tables to the supercomputer in your pocket.

Bars show CPU speed (MIPS — millions of instructions per second) and RAM on a logarithmic scale: the only way to visualise a range that spans from a few hundred instructions per second to billions.

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How long would it take?

Pick a workload (or enter operations) and see how long each selected machine would take to finish it.

Workload:

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Machine Specs CPU & RAM Sel.

Growth over time

Each bar is one machine, sorted chronologically. Logarithmic scale — each grid line is ×10.

CPU Speed (MIPS — log scale)

RAM (log scale)