Video: NVISION '08 Mythbusters show the difference between CPU and GPU

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At NVISION 2008, Jamie and Adam demostrated the difference between a CPU ang sa GPU in rendering images. They used robots to demostrate the speed of creating images by shooting paintballs in an X,Y axis simulating pixels. The result? a Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds!

This is a video of the demonstration as posted by dralter on youtube:
*there are also several other videos of the demonstration on youtube









I love the mythbusters :3

Spotlight: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 (GTX and ULTRA)

Gaming has well stepped up a notch in the past year with the release of games requiring high-end graphics (crysis,Bioshock, Hellgate:London, etc.), and this post is based on what I think is the best Video card series to be released in 2007. The GeForce 8800, SLI-Ready and one of the first to support directX 10®.
A whopping 768 MB (GTX and ULTRA) placed in SLI mode would cater to all your gaming needs.

But the Cost is nothing to scoff at:

GeForce 8800 GTX (/ 768MB GDDR3 / SLI / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card)
Ranges from $400 - $780 as of now

and

GeForce 8800 Ultra (/ 768MB GDDR3 / SLI Ready / PCI Express / Dual Link Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card
Costs at around $600- $780

the GTX would prove to be a better choice to save a couple of hundred dollars, the increased performance from the Ultra is not that noticable when compared to how much you'd save.

I'd say that this would be one of the best choices for gamers anywhere, but I can wait a while for the price to drop a little. =p

Asus EN8800 GTX

2 GeForce 8800 Ultra in SLI

Redefine your gaming reality with NVIDIA® SLI™-Ready GeForce® 8800 graphics processors. The world’s first DirectX® 10 GPUs feature a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience. Power through games at record speeds. Charge through game maps with vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting effects. And crank up 16x full-screen anti-aliasing without missing a beat.
Available Models:

• GeForce 8800 Ultra
• GeForce 8800 GTX
• GeForce 8800 GTS
• GeForce 8800 GT

Here's the hard numbers:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_8800.html

	GeForce 8800 Ultra	GeForce 8800 GTX	GeForce 8800 GTS	GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB1	GeForce 8800 GT
Stream Processors	128	128	96	128	112
Core Clock (MHz)	612	575	500	650	600
Shader Clock (MHz)	1500	1350	1200	1625	1500
Memory Clock (MHz)	1080	900	800	1000	900
Memory Amount	768MB	768MB	640MB or 320MB	512MB	512MB
Memory Interface	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	103.7	86.4	64	64	57.6
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	39.2	36.8	24	41.6	33.6