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Nvidia Predicts 570X GPU Performance Increase

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GPU performance will increase up to 570x in the next six years.

TG Daily is reporting that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made an astonishing prediction, claiming that GPU computing will dramatically increase over the next six years, a mere 570 times that of today's capabilities in fact, while CPU performance will only increase a staggering 3x in the same timeframe.

According to Huang, who made his revelation at the Hot Chips symposium in Stanford University, the advancement would open the door to advanced forms of augmented reality and the development of real-time universal language translation devices. Wait? A universal translator? Sounds like Huang is talking Star Trek!

Huang also said that such advancements in GPU computation would also boost a number of applications such as interactive ray tracing, CGI simulations, energy exploration, and other "real-world" applications.

101 Comments Comment from the forums
  • leafblower29 27 August 2009 05:43
    Damn that's a lot.
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  • radnor 27 August 2009 05:46
    I don't know why, but i don't doubt that
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  • ubernoobie 27 August 2009 05:46
    that bugatti veyron looks awefully realistic
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  • tipoo 27 August 2009 05:47
    ubernoobiethat bugatti veyron looks awefully realisticTo me it looks like something you would see in NFS, nothing impressive.
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  • maximus559 27 August 2009 05:58
    Now that I'd like to see :) Really though, that's a bit outlandish. NVIDIA had better have something big up its sleeve to back up claims like that, because in my experience, nothing in this industry advances in leaps like that.
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  • Gin Fushicho 27 August 2009 05:58
    I just want to hear about they're next GPU already.
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  • Blessedman 27 August 2009 06:01
    if they continue their recent course of a new chip ever other year (instead of every 6months back in the day), 570x looks like a typo...
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  • 27 August 2009 06:10
    Yeah right... Nvidia has some magical breakthrough up their sleeves, 570x the performance in the same power envelope, since there's no way they can dissipate anymore heat than they already are...

    Intel already tried and failed at this kind of breakthrough, they whipped up a frenzy with their sham terascale demonstration, then later they realized that Larrabee was going to suck, then they quietly watered down expectations, and it wouldn't even surprise me now if they quietly cancelled it's release altogether.
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  • lejay 27 August 2009 06:22
    Yeah... And the zune hd has 25 days of music playback time, right?
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  • intesx81 27 August 2009 06:34
    Here's my 'translation' of this article: The amount of GPU computing (using the GPU for non-graphic work) with increase by 570x. Considering the nearly non-existant uses for GPU based computing today, its definitely conceivable that there could be 570x more uses for GPU based computing. This just seems like whoever picked up the story took the figure out of context. Its technically true but not in the way we're reading it.
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