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Old June 24, 2010, 01:01 PM
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Default Intel Claims GPUs are Only 14x Faster
In most instances, a rival company candidly admitting that your product performs substantially better doesn't exactly seem like bad press at all. In a technical paper presented by Intel, the company conceded that GPUs are faster than the traditional CPU, but only by 14 times. The thing is, NVIDIA claims that its current generation of GPUs are over... [ Read full article ]
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any bit faster is the point that matters no?
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*Rolleyes*

Anyone who cares about this sort of stuff in the first place has to be at least partially aware that both sides blatantly cherry-pick their measuring tools.
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Wow, these guys have a lot of money and time on their hands.
Until Intel starts producing GPUs that can compare to what Ati and Nvidia has to offer for gaming, this is pointless.
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In other news;

Bananas are 63x more yellow than kiwis!
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Bananas are 63x more yellow than kiwis!
I can attest to this statement.

Also not mentioned is that any Kiwis used were eaten immediatly after the comparison. We didnt want the competition using our data metric against us!
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Wait, so we're not suppose to weigh the bananas in pounds and compare them directly to the kiwis we measured in kilograms direct without converting!?
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guys,guys. why are we forgetting about the lemons now!
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guys,guys. why are we forgetting about the lemons now!
There is no reason to drag ATI into this debate right now
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There is no reason to drag ATI into this debate right now
Lol...clever!
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