Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home

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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And you know WHAT about parallellism???

[Khyber]

GPUs are highly specialized and have far higher memory bandwidth than what's on your motherboard (in most cases, unless you're still stuck with an older GeForce or Radeon card that's on an AGP bus.) This sahouldn't come nearly as much as a surprise as dual voodoo2 cards producing 1024x768 gaming resolution at 60FPS. Are you hiding in a hole? No, I'm not trying to be a troll, but this is absolutely absurd. How does this make it Slashdot?

Oh, I forgot, it's news REPOSTING site. It's nowhere on the forefront of bleeding-edge technology, and the way things are going, it most likely NEVER WILL BE. OSTG might as well die with the rest of the dinosaurs, in that case, because if you can't keep on the bleeding edge like *pukes hard* Digg does, fuck, I might as well just ignore the internet and start looking at independent benchmarks. Get these fucking slashvertisements out of my face, FFS.