Quote Originally Posted by Lestat View Post
has there been any HONEST EDUCATED specualtion as to the true power of CUDA vs todays dual and quad core cpu's ?
i read the quick article about photoshop running with the GPU plugin and although nothing technical was given the 1 line statement they gave makes it seem like a GPU is light years beyond todays current cpu's.

if this is the case then why hasnt AMD or intel made the CgPU ? i mean,, if AMD/ATI want to win the war,, make the dam next thing an ATI CPU.....

if the GPU is so powerful,,, then,,, ... wtf are they waiting for???
Ever seen Folding @ Home on ATI GPUs? There ya go. They have released toolkits do to so. The thing with GPUs is that they are very powerful very parallel "CPUs". They are only very good at doing a few specific tasks, most of time its with images and image related things. The F@H GPU client can't crunch all the same Work Units the CPU version gets, because of limitations of what the GPU can do.