[midnight-gamer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hree floating-point operations per clock period per core at 1.296 GHz works out to 933 GFLOPS (billions of floating-point operations per second) for single-precision computations, a record for a production chip. (Intel made an experimental 80-core floating-point processor in 2007 that exceeded 1 TFLOPS, but never brought it to market.) The GTX family can also handle double-precision math, which will help in professional applications; in this mode, the GTX 280 delivers over 90 GFLOPS. The chip has 142 GB/s (gigabytes per second) of memory bandwidth over a 512-bit memory interface. It can manage a gigabyte of 1.1-GHz GDDR3 frame-buffer memory.

These are truly astounding numbers for a single-chip processor, suggesting that the GTX 280 is an order of magnitude faster than the theoretical capability of current quad-core PC CPUs.

[emersonbiggins]

With this announcement, I am anxiously awaiting the debut of Call of Duty 5.

[Troyboy1208]

LOL now I can play Crysis on max settings. Not only does the game take place in the future...you needed a yet to be invented chip to run it!! How appropriate. is Moore's law still holding up?

[midnight-gamer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'i')s Moore's law still holding up?

[midnight-gamer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction.”

[emersonbiggins]

Pentium 4 - whoa, that's ancient. Is there an updated chart?

[pedalling_faster]

the good news is, no one actually needs one, and the low-power-consumption cards (7600GT, 8600GT) are enough to satisfy almost everybody, and getting cheaper.

don't get my wrong, i revel in these incredible machines.

buy nVidia so nVidian's can work ?

[midnight-gamer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')hoa, that's ancient. Is there an updated chart?

[emersonbiggins]

Excellent. Thanks for taking the time to look that up. I would have thought the focus on dual-core and quad-core CPUs (as opposed to sheer clock speed) would have made a detrimental impact, but that doesn't look to be the case.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'E')xcellent. Thanks for taking the time to look that up. I would have thought the focus on dual-core and quad-core CPUs (as opposed to sheer clock speed) would have made a detrimental impact, but that doesn't look to be the case.

[ANewHuman]

Yeah I like these new chips, consume more power, increasing the rate of destruction come collapse time. Everybody pony up on these 230W peak devices.