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Originally Posted by 3.0charlie  You should see a pts explosion once FaH releases their new GPU client, for the 38xx series. |
No kidding.
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Originally Posted by tom.mullie folding is perfect for GPUs because it requires millions of easy calculations, for thousands of small processors (relatively speaking of course). I imagine that the GPU based CPU would start to falter when hit with programs that use harder math (know nothing of programing, so can't give examples.
that said, using 4x xfire to get 1280 cores would be cool, if only for the stats page.
[edit] also makes me wonder how GPU makers profit when they sell such a more complicated product, with onborard RAM and the whole deal for around $250 (8800gt), the price of an e8400, give or take. |
Stuff like physics really works well on GPU's, with all the parallelism (is that a word??). A cheap GPU can easily beat a CPU in physics. And with Fusion coming up there will likely be a easy way to use the Fusion GPU for stuff other than graphics for things that can benefit from it.
Those are just my thoughts.