Interactive explorer · 8 minutes

Compute Scaling Explorer

The computer that landed humans on the moon had less memory than a single emoji. Put machines from across six decades side by side, then read the gaps on a logarithmic scale — because on a normal one, everything before the modern era is invisible.

Start here

Seeded match-ups

Load a curated comparison, or build your own below.

Build a comparison

Pick 2–3 machines

Figures are drawn from public specifications, historical documentation, and standard estimates; costs are approximate and framed to each machine's launch-window context. They exist to convey orders of magnitude, not to be quoted to the decimal. Core and GPU counts across radically different architectures are not directly comparable — treat the "processing units" bar as a rough sense of scale, not a benchmark.