Try Badaboom, its a converting software absolutely kicks CPU conversion times ass

its already stated by nvidia that its equivalent to 4 i7 975 cpus

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

That's not true, the 400 series runs c++ and fortran code natively, any program that uses that lanuguage can be changed to run entirely on the GPU.

The shader cores are used as processing cored so a gtx480 is essential a 480 core processor. They are extremely efficient, far more so than any CPU which is why Tesla cards are used in scientific calculations rather than cpu clusters like the days of old.

A PGU beating a cpu in tasks is nothing new. Nvidias method will take hold before intel can combine a GPU on the die, because a cpu die is so small it is almost impossible to fit any decent GPU components in their, but a GPU is much larger and is better suited to the dual role

It is a piss poor comparison though. GPUs are enormous, a GTX280 has three times as many transistors as a core i7 and they are nearly all logic transistors (logic calculates, cache is just dumb memory), not cache which makes up a great deal of a CPU. It has more transistors than a Tukwila itanium (a massive server CPU with huge cache) Take a GPU's strongest suit, massively parallel floating point performance, and pit it against a CPU. The CPU will lose badly, a GPU has ridiculous FP performance and absurd bandwith of course! Look at the performance per watt, if they state its only 2.5 times as fast thats also not that great for the GPU. GTX280's TDP is nearly twice as much as a core i7. Now try and run a benchmark that requires a lot of branch prediction code, the GPU will fail so hard and get arse whipped by a pentium 4....

They both do different things very well, and other things not so well. a CPU is still required as it is so general purpose. Most supercomputers are generally banks of CPUs because you can run anything you want on them, not so with GPUs.

This article is basically saying a knife is better at cutting than a spoon. Wow, REALLY?

4GB of 2 year old Kingston RAM outperforms 320GB Hard Drive!!! Amazing!