Nvidia, AMD Launch Teraflop Graphics Chips
<a href="http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/16/nvidia-and-amd-launch-new-salvos-graphics-chip-battle">The Industry Standard</a>, <a hared="http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208404116">InformationWeek</a>
Nvidia and AMD have each rolled out competing high-end graphics cards that near 1 teraflop of performance.Nvidia's chip, the $649 GeForce GTX 280, is its first in the company?s new series of GeForce GTX 200 series graphics chips, consumes one-third the power of its predecessor (the GeForce 8800 GT), offers 50 percent more gaming power and can be combined with a total of three graphics cards inside a single computer.
As for AMD, its new hardware consumes as little as 110 watts -- less than half of the GTX 280. It exceeds the 1-teraflop metric and comes in three versions: the low-end ATI Radeon HD 4850, due out June 25; the midlevel HD 4870, due out July 8; and the highest-performing R700, due out in mid-August. The chips will range in price from $200 to $500.
AMD also unveiled FireStream 9250, its second-generation general-purpose GPU, which will compete with Nvidia's Tesla 10P GPU, also announced today.The Industry Standard, InformationWeek
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