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All in the cards.
Byline: Emil Larsen
All in the cards
There's plenty to get excited about with the latest generation of graphics cards, writes Emil Larsen
Moore's Law states that the number of transistors in a processor will double roughly every 18 months. But in the past few years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have been outgunning this significantly. So much so that high-end ATI and Nvidia cards now pack in 700 million transistors, many more than Intel and AMD CPUs.
Graphics cards are now so advanced that they are used across the scientific and computer modelling community. Everything from biological research to Windows anti-virus detection is being offloaded to graphics cards. And because they're massively parallel computing structures, they can process several bits of data at once.
Kaspersky, for example, recently demonstrated an anti-virus program running 21 times quicker on an ATI graphics card than on AMD's fastest dual cores.
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