Xbox Series X would have the power of a supercomputer of IBM from 110 million dollars 20 years ago. HTC Marketing Manager Shen Ye said this on Twitter by comparing the computational power of the two machines. Forgetting to compare RAM and hard disc.

In an interesting, if reckless, parallel between a IBM ASCI White supercomputer and an Xbox Series X, Shen Ye, Marketing Manager of HTC, highlighted how Microsoft's next console will be, at least on paper, as powerful as a machine that cost $ 110 million 20 years ago.

The comparison was made on the synthetic power of the two hardware: “The next Xbox is said to spawn 12 TeraFlops of computational power. IBM ASCI White, the fastest computer 20 years ago, had a theoretical power of 12.3 TFlops. It cost $ 110 million, weighs 106 tons and consumes 6 MW of power (half for cooling).“

The reasoning should demonstrate how technology really made gods strides. Shen Ye, however, has forgotten – at least initially – one thing: it is true that the synthetic power is comparable, but ASCI White also had 6TB of RAM and 160TB of storage, quantities (especially the first) still out of reach. average user.