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Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

700 years worth of compute to do about an hour of gaming that I just did on my pc at home in realtime ... damn.

Did I math it right? I was averaging about 100 fps in hogwarts for about an hour.

[โ€“] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 9 months ago

Say you generated 86'400'000 frames. 17h a frame that's roughly 16'767 years.