This is interesting !!!

Shady

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I thought this was interesting
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/1851226

Of course this changes everything !!!
As you might know CPUs are good in fixed point operations and GPUs are far better in Floating point operations...
The claimed theoretical processing power for the GeForce 8800 GTX has 518.4 GigaFLOPs performance given the fact that there are 128 stream processors at 1.35GHz with each SP being able to run 1 Multiply-Add and 1 Multiply instruction per clock [(MADD (2 FLOPS) + MUL (1 FLOPS)) × 1350 MHz × 128 SPs = 518.4 GigaFLOPS].[4] This figure may not be correct because the Multiply operation is not always available[5] giving a possibly more accurate performance figure of (MADD (2 FLOPS) × 1350 MHz × 128 SPs) = 345.6 GigaFLOPS.
 
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