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its so tough to buy electronics cuz its obsolete so fast >< oh well.. i guess its a good thing
wow pretty interesting, but really can a game really use 80 cores??? hmmm imagine if they can...
Interesting...I doubt it though, think of it...80!
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what the hell is a gigaflop?
a flop is when you let yourself drop onto your bed like you have just been shot in the back. a gigaflop is just a million flops in a secondDaysniper wrote:
what the hell is a gigaflop?
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They can, it just depends on whether the developer coded it for 80 cores or not.Maj.Do wrote:
wow pretty interesting, but really can a game really use 80 cores??? hmmm imagine if they can...
A "FLOP" is a floating point operation. In theory the heaviest thing you can do to your processor. Asking it to multiply or divide two non-integral numbers (ie compute with numbers like: 4.6743543, sqr(82), or 9/47 stuff of that type).
A kiloflop is then 1000 flops, a megaflop is 1000000 flops, a gigaflop is 1000000000 flops, and a teraflop is then 1000000000000 flops.
In 1995 (I think) the first omputer was built capable of doing more than one teraflops pr second. Today it's not uncommon for "supercomputers" to be able to do a teraflop, but it's still expensive. With the advent of a SINGLE CPU (ok, 80 in a single board setup) that can do this, a LOT of mathematical problems are able to be solved pretty quickly, and at an affordable price.
However, if this tech is not going to be introduced untill around 2010, then dont expect to see it in your computer untill around 2015. And at THAT time, I'll bet that nanocomputing has advanced enough to make the tech obsolete anyway !
A kiloflop is then 1000 flops, a megaflop is 1000000 flops, a gigaflop is 1000000000 flops, and a teraflop is then 1000000000000 flops.
In 1995 (I think) the first omputer was built capable of doing more than one teraflops pr second. Today it's not uncommon for "supercomputers" to be able to do a teraflop, but it's still expensive. With the advent of a SINGLE CPU (ok, 80 in a single board setup) that can do this, a LOT of mathematical problems are able to be solved pretty quickly, and at an affordable price.
However, if this tech is not going to be introduced untill around 2010, then dont expect to see it in your computer untill around 2015. And at THAT time, I'll bet that nanocomputing has advanced enough to make the tech obsolete anyway !