ATI, emulating Nvidia, turns its graphics chips into CPUs

10.12.2008

That underscores how today's top-of-the-line graphics cards are as expensive as the desktop PCs they are installed in, and, arguably, more powerful. Cards cost about $400, have 240 processor cores operating at 1.3 MHz each, and 1GB of GDDR RAM operating at 1.1 GHz.

Meanwhile, ATI's latest more than

ATI also plans to release a souped-up processor based on the Radeon HD 4870 that costs $1,499. As many as eight of the processors can be installed in a single 4U server rack to provide a supercomputer-like 10 teraflops of performance.