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AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box"

UncleFluffy writes "AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years." Ars has an article exploring why it's hard to program such GPUs for anything other than graphics applications.

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  1. DVI??? by sumdumass · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are the DVI conections really all that better? I havn't seem too much of a difference in them. I doubt most of my normal customers would see the difference too.

    Or is it just a case were I have always used the cheapest monitors and you need higher end one to see the diffence? IF this is the case, Then would a cheap video card be sufficient to get noticable results? I have found the higher end monitors look just as good or just as poor reguardles of how they are conected. (with Video cards that have both VGA and DVI conectors.) I always asumes it was a card or the monitor itselse causing the issues if any.

  2. Ding Dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My schlong is long and looks like a ding dong. All women welcome.

  3. Re:well, it shouldn't be by justinbach · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No way is it gonna be a flop at the stores! Haven't you heard Justin Timberlake's new song?

    I know what MY girlfriend's getting for her birthday...
    my teraflop in a box!

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  4. Re:well, it shouldn't be by jimstapleton · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To be honest, I'd rather gauge out my eardrums with a rusty spoon than hear that...

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  5. Re:Not misleading at all by Dread+Pirate+Skippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh snap! =O