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**Kalim** · 06-27-2008, 10:14 AM

I'm not so sure of that, we've been expecting it since November 2006 but that never came. What did eventually come to rise is this. The latest PhysX/CUDA developments are all trying to move gaming and video transcoding loads from the CPU onto the GPU entirely since modern GPU's have huge untapped power if well utilized here, eclipsing a 4 GHz quad-core by many stretches. That aligned to folding and parallel processing power of 800 Stream Processors (ALU's in the latest HD 4800) is monster power no desktop CPU can come half as near to and hence optimization and exploitation in this field is what everyone is now working hard towards. The focus really has moved over to the GPU in desktop computing now.

06-27-2008, 10:14 AM	#14 (permalink)
Kalim Roaming To Help Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5,614 OS: Many	Re: E2160 clocked to 3.15GHz Will Q6600 make a huge difference? I'm not so sure of that, we've been expecting it since November 2006 but that never came. What did eventually come to rise is this. The latest PhysX/CUDA developments are all trying to move gaming and video transcoding loads from the CPU onto the GPU entirely since modern GPU's have huge untapped power if well utilized here, eclipsing a 4 GHz quad-core by many stretches. That aligned to folding and parallel processing power of 800 Stream Processors (ALU's in the latest HD 4800) is monster power no desktop CPU can come half as near to and hence optimization and exploitation in this field is what everyone is now working hard towards. The focus really has moved over to the GPU in desktop computing now.