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Your iPhone vs The World's Fastest Computer
The iPhone and the world's fastest supercomputer have both been following Moore's Law for decades — at exactly the same rate. Your iPhone 13 is faster than the 1997 world record supercomputer. The gap has stayed at roughly 24 years since 2010.
The story
Both lines grow at roughly Moore's Law rates — doubling every 18 months or so. The difference is that supercomputers have been doing it since 1993, and iPhones joined the race in 2007 starting far behind. But because the slopes are the same, the gap between the two lines stays roughly constant in time: about 24 years.
The punchline: your iPhone 17 would have set the world record for compute performance in 1999. Not in the 1960s. 1999.
Sources: TOP500.org (supercomputer rankings); Apple chip technical specifications; GPU peak FP32 performance estimates.