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Originally Posted by kid41212003
That doesn't sound really impressed, anyone care to explain how powerful is this card compare to current workstation cards?
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Products based on GT200 has 78 Gflops of double precision performance, per GPU.
EDIT: Maybe that doesn't sound impressive yet.
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Finally, notice that even the GTX 285 still gets less than twice the double precision throughput of an AMD Phenom II 940 or Intel Core i7, both of which get about 50 GFlop/s for double and don’t require sophisticated latency hiding data transfer or a complex programming model.
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That's from here:
http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/200...idiaGT200.aspx
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Originally Posted by shevanel
What are these cards used for? What is the main market?
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Scientists, engineers, economists... anyone with high computing requirements will greatly benefit from this. Until now most of them had to allocate computing time from a supercomputer (or build their own -> $$$$$$$$$). Now they can have something as powerful as the portion of the supercomputing they'd allocate, right on their desk, for a fraction of the money and without the need to worry about their allocating time ending before they finished their studies.