On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen(a)comhem.se> wrote: Those are nice specs, especially the power and bandwidth--however, a Nvidia card that does 160 GFlops is probably a *lot* cheaper (just based on costs I've seen with TI DSP processors). A card capable of ~500 GFlops only cost me ~$150, last year (mid-range card, previously released series). ECC memory adds a ton of cost--you have to buy the Tesla series to get cards with ECC memory which is useful for scientific calculations. The power cost per flop is important in the cold room, but to a machine for personal use, the power consumption really doesn't matter. I would really hope to see more competition for the GPGPU market soon. Most people see that Nvidia got out ahead of the curve. I'd fully expect other companies (I think, Intel, AMD, IBM, and TI) to have other similar OpenCL compatible processors that can compete. But not today. Chuck