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by ThePhysicist 4465 days ago
That's pretty impressive. According to the announcement this card will sport 8 Teraflops (or about 112 GIPS), which corresponds to the entire available computing power on this planet in 1990. Let's play some Counterstrike :D

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/xbox-o...

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New benchmarking scheme: "Entire available computing power on the planet in year XXXX"

Awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Histo...

Another fun one. At 8 Teraflops it makes it equivalent to the top supercomputer of 2000. So our desktops (in terms of raw computing capability) are only about 14 years behind supercomputers, and that gap is closing rapidly.