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Brad Eckert wrote:

> On Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:35:43 PM UTC-7, Bernd Paysan wrote:
>> If you get the top
>> model from AMD (HD 7970), you get 2048 shaders at 925MHz, two 10cm fans
>> to blow away 250W, and double precision is 1/4s of the single precision
>> flops - which then is at around 900 GFLOPs DP and blows away any Core i7.
>> 
> This is mostly driven by people playing games on their PCs. And here I
> didn't think they'd contribute anything to computing.

Lara Croft's hair in realtime?  It's a nontrivial computation, as the 
problems with NVidia's driver show ;-).  These things are sold to gamers 
*and* to supercomputer makers, which is why they have faster DP than the 
mid-range cards.  The gamers don't need any DP.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. organicmonkeymotion@gmail.com - 2013-03-24 01:30 -0700
  Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-24 11:02 -0700
    Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-03-24 20:21 +0200
      Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-03-24 19:35 +0000
      Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-24 12:40 -0700
        Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-03-24 23:26 +0200
          Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-24 15:57 -0700
          Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-03-25 03:35 +0100
            Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 11:03 -0700
              Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-03-25 19:40 +0100
          Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 19:34 -0400
    Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-03-24 17:40 -0400
      Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. AKE <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2013-03-24 15:54 -0700
        Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 11:39 -0700
        Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 20:00 -0400
          Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. AKE <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 17:33 -0700
            Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 21:56 -0400
  Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-03-24 17:03 -0700
    Re: There you go boys and girls, a challenge  .. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 19:43 -0400

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