Harte Zahlen zur Rechenleistung künftiger Nvidia-GPUs gab es jedoch nicht, die Einheit, in der Huangs Roadmap auf der Vertikalen skaliert ist "GFlops pro Watt". Wie der Nvidia-Mitbegründer betonte, ist die Rechenleistung nicht das Problem, sondern die "Power Wall". Schon mit den ersten Fermi-Grafikkarten kratzte Nvidia an der Grenze von 300 Watt.
The buzz has been loud at times. Almost sounds to good to be true. Use your video card for HPC and get a 10, or maybe even 50 times, speed up of your application. Those kind of comments get my attention. Initially there were some skeptics, but the results keep coming. And, the results were not from some academic lab with some esoteric application.
“The GPU is a powerful, programmable platform that is perfect for computing applications such as seismic processing for oil and gas exploration, computing in bioscience, and financial modeling,” says Andy Keane, general manager of the GPU computing business at NVIDIA, a pioneer in using GPUs for HPC. “The GPU will change the way engineers and researchers approach these problems.”