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Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hotter-than-a-thousand-suns dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At CES, Nvidia has announced a graphics card with 480 cores that can crank up performance to reach close to 2 teraflops. The company's GTX 295 graphics cards has two GPUs with 240 cores each that can execute graphics and other computing tasks like video processing. The card delivers 1.788 teraflops of performance, which Nvidia claims is the fastest single graphics card in the market."

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  1. But will it run Crysis?... by TibbonZero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, seriously... can anything run it at full options yet?

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    1. Re:But will it run Crysis?... by sexconker · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No game is made for gamers in the future.
      Game sales are extremely front loaded.

      After a month, 50% of games are in the bargain bin.

    2. Re:But will it run Crysis?... by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 4, Interesting

      After a month, 50% of games are in the bargain bin.

      This used to be true, but actually seems to be less true now than it was. When I went to buy a game at Best Buy recently, some of the games with good stock, good display space, and $30+ prices were more than a year old.

      The development cost on a tier-1 computer game is high enough now that not many of them get released. There isn't another game to put in the shelf slot if they take down Crysis, and there won't be for another year or so.

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  2. 480 core? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Color me doubtful but I suspect it's 480 stream processors which isn't anywhere NEAR the same thing as the "cores" on the CPU or even the core of the GPU.

    Why has the press suddenly started to call stream processors "cores"? Marketing?