MARIA, the graphics chip in the Atari 7800, had 24k transistors. Atari sold about 3.8M units of that console, which adds up to 91.2B transistors.

Coincidentally, GB202-300, the graphics chip in the NVIDIA 5090, has 92.2B transistors.

Just sayin'

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10 minutes on the 5090 uses as much transistor time as a lifetime on the 7800. That's wall time, I'm not even scaling for the difference in clock speed.