Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 13, 2006 @10:20AM from the that's-fast dept.

ludd1t3 writes, "The Folding@Home project has put forth some impressive performance numbers with the GPU client that's designed to work with the ATI X1900. According to the client statistics, there are 448 registered GPUs that produce 29 TFLOPS. Those 448 GPUs outperform the combined 25,050 CPUs registered by the Linux and Mac OS clients. Ouch! Are ASICs really that much better than general-purpose circuits? If so, does that mean that IBM was right all along with their AS/400, iSeries product which makes heavy use of ASICs?"

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Re:Obvious? by m0rph3us0 · 2006-10-13 10:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Awesome sig.
I wanted to mod you up, but then I realized I couldn't tell you why.
So sorry.
Re:Obvious? by SeaFox · 2006-10-13 11:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Awesome sig.
I wanted to mod you up, but then I realized I couldn't tell you why.

Except you can Windows on a Mac now, so it can play games. So Macintosh hardware can do everything a Mac can do and everything a PC can do, making the Mac the superior hardware choice.