It’s no secret that today’s high-end graphics cards are more powerful than desktop PCs of a few years ago. However, things are about to get a lot more interesting:
The PC industry’s two largest graphics companies released new top-of-the-line models this week. The new graphics processors will bring not just better videogame performance, but will also turn ordinary desktop PCs into the equivalent of supercomputers — if programmers can figure out how to take advantage of the chips’ massively parallel architectures.
A little over ten years ago, ASCI Red was the first supercomputer to achieve teraflop performance. Now, a single consumer grade graphics card available at Amazon.com
