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To Those Who Complain About GTX470 Heat and Power Consumption

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I found this quite interesting when researching the specifications of my GTX470. The card is capable of over 1 tera flops. 1.088 at default speeds to be precise. The GTX480 is capable of 1.345 Tflops.

The first supercomputer to reach the teraflop mark was Intels ASCI Red. It was capable of 1.34 Tflops, exactly that of the GTX480 coincidentally. It took up 2500 square feet, used 9298 pentium CPUs and most importantly used 850kW! of power, before cooling.

So next time you switch on your beast of a card and worry about the power it uses, spare a thought for the person that had to pay the electricity bill for that. :D
 
I don't understand why gpu is faster than cpu? Is it to do with architecture?

To what extent gpu is used to process AI in the game? Also what is the main role of gpu?
 
madindehead said:
The main role of the GPU, is, surprisingly, to process the graphics :p

The AI is all done on the CPU.
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Until NVidia release NVPhysAIX and cripple all CPU AI in The way it's meant to be played games and then change their name to Cyberdine systems and rebrand it as Skynet :eek: :p


/Before the zeloats jump in I use a GTX 470 :P
 
RavenXXX2 said:
lol 5870 and 5850 do around 2,7 and 2,09 TFLOPs respectively.;)
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Heh... Theoretical throughput sure.

I've not seen them get even close to that in real world applications though. I'm still using a 9800+ at work for GPGPU stuff (linear algebra mainly), but I have colleagues using the 5870. The 5870 performs a little better than the 9800+ (around a factor of two), but nowhere near what it 'should', based on the theoretical maximums.

I keep hearing we will have fermi-based quattro cards to play with soon, but nothing has yet materialised. I suppose I couldn't really justify it right now anyway, as we're still mainly just experimenting with GPGPU.
 
I couldn't care less about GPGPU tbh, everytime I run BOINC, I shut it down within 5-10 min. I usually can't stand the noise of fans spinning up when I'm web browsing or working. Gotta change with watercooling.

Generating lulz from the thread. I need those GTX 480s in Tri-SLI to dim the power of the best superdupercomputers, yeah! And a LED monitor to generate Over 9000 in dynamic contrast!
 
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