A single B300 now matches the world's fastest 1997 supercomputer in FP64 FLOPs
scaling01 · x · 2026-11-03
A single NVIDIA B300 GPU delivers as much FP64 FLOPs as the strongest supercomputer from 1997. The poster shares a cute explainer video made with Opus 5.5 to visualize the comparison.
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