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>

Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

June 16, 2008

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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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Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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