Re: For those who missed it -another PC milestone

From Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx>, in uk.politics.misc on
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:39:25 +0100 :

http://tinyurl.com/4y9ktt

AMD is shipping a graphics chip for use in PCs that can run at 1TFLOP ie
one million million floating point operations per second. And their
rival nVidia has released software to make this generally available as a
PC resource on their own chips. So PCs just jumped in effective power by
about a factor of 50.


From article lead:

"AMD Ships Teraflops Line Of Graphics Cards

AMD's new line of graphics cards is capable of a trillion calculations per
second, double the computing power of the company's previous generation of
high-end cards. "

In any event, this is a graphics card, not a processor. In fact, the
performance of the graphics card will be dependent on relayed information
emanating from central processor unit input.....

So where did your comment "So PCs just jumped in effective power by
about a factor of 50." come from?

(Or just put a check mark here __ to agree that you overstated all of
this........)

FACE
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