How many times more powerful is a modern phone than the Apollo 11 computer?
Technology hard Data from 2024
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The answer
100,000 times
Roughly 100K.
A modern phone is well over 100,000 times more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer, which ran at 0.043 MHz with 4 KB of RAM. It landed people on the Moon; your phone uses more computing power to autocorrect a text message.
Where this number comes from
| Source | NASA historical computing specifications |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | times |
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