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NVIDIA Predicts 570x GPU Performance Boost
Gianna Borgnine writes "NVIDIA is predicting that GPU performance is going to increase a whopping 570-fold in the next six years. According to TG Daily, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made the prediction at this year's Hot Chips symposium. Huang claimed that while the performance of GPU silicon is heading for a monumental increase in the next six years — making it 570 times faster than the products available today — CPU technology will find itself lagging behind, increasing to a mere 3 times current performance levels. 'Huang also discussed a number of "real-world" GPU applications, including energy exploration, interactive ray tracing and CGI simulations.'"
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Jen-Hsun Huang is a certified clown who just a short while back was running around saying things like 'we will open a can of whoop-ass on Intel'.
What a dumbass ...
I see a few tags that cast doubt on the prediction. Why? I'll bet there were skeptics of Moore's Law when that became widely disseminated.
It may have something to do with the fact that Jen-Hsun Huang is a notorious blowhard, whose foot spends far more time in his mouth than on the ground.
Combine that with the extremity of the claim (570-fold over 6 years is a huge rate of improvement), and the tags don't seem so surprising.
We live, as we dream -- alone....
Why do people keep saying 570-fold like it means the same thing as 570 times greater. 570 fold would be equivalent to 2^570ith, and thats not what Nvidia predicted.