Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops

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."

Comments

Yes, but...

[tgetzoya]

Will this be the first card to run Windows Aero at a decent speed?

Re:Tell me how big it is.

[StikyPad]

I agree with most of your post, but..

(Since I have an all-electric home, why not use my PC to heat part of it in the wintertime instead of wasting that electricity heating air solely through with my all-electric HVAC unit...)

Those "savings" will be offset in the summer when you need to remove the heat, assuming you use air conditioning. Whether it's a net gain or loss depends somewhat on the variance in outdoor temperatures, but it's generally more efficient to heat air than to cool it, relative to your local atmospheric temperature. It's entirely possible, and even likely (depending on where you live) that it will be a net loss in energy-used-by-your-HVAC.

Also, you'll probably find that your HVAC is much more efficient at heating the house than the GPU, so any heating done by the GPU is costing you more. Which is slightly better than wasting the heat entirely, but still not a "feature" worth mentioning.