High-end coprocessor overview

Posted on Saturday, September 20 2008 @ 7:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TG Daily takes a look at modern high-end coprocessors. This includes graphics cards like that can do GPGPU computing tasks like the ATI Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 but also the NVIDIA T10P Tesla, Clearspeed CSX700 and Tilera Tile64.
We began seeing modifications to video cards through software libraries. No longer would products from ATI or Nvidia simply do better graphics faster, but now it would provide real compute abilities and speedups not possible previously without extremely expensive high-end cards.

In this article, we look at five high-end contenders priced that are likely appeal to enthusiast, enterprise power and professional users. ATI's highest end graphics card, the RV770-based 4870; Nvidia's highest-end offerings the GTX 280 and T10P Tesla; Clearspeed's CSX700 and Tilera's Tile64. All of these products are available today and all of them have proven their abilities to significantly increase performance through parallel computing.
Check it out over here.


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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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