The Parallella Solution is much much more energy efficient than a GPU because a GPU have to power (for HPC unused) parts like Polygon Rendering circuits and stuff like that.
Think about it ~40GFLOPS for 1...2 Watts...hell, even the chips that they produce now in a 65nm process could be built easily into a Smartphone
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The Parallella Solution is much much more energy efficient than a GPU because a GPU have to power (for HPC unused) parts like Polygon Rendering circuits and stuff like that. Think about it ~40GFLOPS for 1...2 Watts...hell, even the chips that they produce now in a 65nm process could be built easily into a Smartphone