Gpu 10x More Powerful then CPU???!!

[Blazing_Javelin]

A AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600 has 0.18 Teraflops of power while a ATi Radeon 4870 has 1.2 Teraflops of power.......why is the Gpu more powerful these days, and why don't we make the cpu just as powerful?

 

[Shane]

may i ask ,,,,,how you find out how much teraflops a cpu has?

as for your question,i have no clue but good question

 

[taylormsj]

Just cos it has more teraflops, doesnt mean its more powerfull, they both do different things, IMO its not comparable

 

[lovely?]

tomshardware.com
read that and it will explain the differences in CPU and GPU construction, and why GPU's need more Tflops to do what they do, and why CPU's dont need as many.

 

[oregon]

Supposedly the GPU is much better for Folding@Home than the CPU, even a quad core. But it is hard to get it to work.

 

[Zangetsu]

Normally a CPU is more powerful, but in the end they are both microprocessors.

 

[Blazing_Javelin]

supposedly a CPU has sequential processing with 1-4 cores and a GPU has parallel processing with 24-240 cores (stream processors) maybe this is why?........i'm suprised the gpu doesn't blow up with that many cores/processors