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How would a 6502 with current technology be? (piefed.social)
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The current CPUs use 3 or 5 nm transistors and run at MHzs and I was thinking how small and fast would be a 6502 or a Z80 with current tech?

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Well, only 6.25 MHz... when the W65C02 can run up to 14 MHz and when CPUs stopped measuring the clock speed in MHz decades ago...

But it's a nice retrocomputer.