Friday, April 11th 2008
NVIDIA Promises Powerful sub-$45 Processing Platform
It all starts with NVIDIA CEO's Jen Hsun-Huang statement "We're going to open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel, which quickly became a synonym for the announcement of NVIDIA and VIA jointly developed low-cost processing platform. During NVIDIA's financial analyst meeting today, the company revealed plans for what it calls "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC". The platform will use a VIA Isaiah C7-M processor coupled with an integrated NVIDIA IGP chipset. NVIDIA reckons that this combo will be good for a total of 36 GFLOPS in comparison to a mere 6.4 GFLOPS for a comparable Celeron-based system with an Intel 945 IGP/ICH4 chipset. NVIDIA also claims that its platform will be Windows Vista Premium capable, support Blu-ray HD and DirectX10, and cost less than $45.
Source:
DailyTech
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Edit: Did a little searching, depends on the number of threads, but seeing results around 10 GFLOPS. If they are serious about 36 GFLOPS, that is something to take notice of.
However, is this the whole platform, meaning mobo (with IGP and nb.sb and such) plus a proc for 45 bucks? IF so, that is a hell of a deal.
Edit: After reading the article, it seems nVidia is counting the 8 IGP Shaders in that 36GFLOPS. While it might be a capable computer, their marketing is a little shady. Especially comparing their current top of the line IGP agains Intel's 945 IGP which has been obsolete for a long while.
with 2GB of ram, i'm seeing a new wave of HTPC's....
even if it used a 2.5" laptop drive (SDD! SSD!) you could imagine running a lot of media through a box like this over a wireless N network.