Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips 72
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coondoggie writes "Nvidia said this week it got a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop chips for sensor systems that could boost power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt."
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Current NVIDIA K20X compute card produces 5.575 Gflops double precision/Watt:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6446/nvidia-launches-tesla-k20-k20x-gk110-arrives-at-last [anandtech.com]
Note that these cards are slightly different than consumer graphics cards. They have more double-precision pipelines because scientific computing cares more about that kind of math. They are also much more expensive than consumer cards. The underlying chip design is similar to the 600-series graphics cards. You can think of it as a modified version optimized for math, since the 600 series came out first, and is being produced in higher volume.