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First I'll grant you, this would by NO MEANS be a cost effective solution for increasing FSX performance, but I'd be curious to see how useful (if at all) it might be in applications like that. Anyone messed around with one?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_te ... 60_us.html

It's a pretty slick idea really.

It's essentially a GTX 280 only not for games and with a whole lot of slow error checking memory. The GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 470, GTX 480, Radeon 5850 and Radeon 5870 would be faster. The GTX 275 might also be faster.

I think you're missing it. It's not a video card. It's a card that turns your computer into what is essentially a small cluster farm. The gpu and memory aren't used for rendering, but for primary computations, just like the computer's main cpu and ram. (Like turning two machines into one.)

Unless I misunderstood. (very possible, I was half asleep when I posted it.)

Depends what your definition of videocard is.


It is pretty much a GTX 280 with different memory and some adjustments for workstations. You can already do much (if not all?) of what it does through CUDA which is a feature on practically all nvidia videocards made within the past few years. It is how they implement PhysX real-time physics in many new PC games. It is also implemented in various Adobe products like Photoshop which speeds it up massively, and also other programs like folding@home.

NO, you cannot run Windows on it, nor FSX. You need to specially develop software using the CUDA SDK - so only some programs can take advantage of it. Perhaps FS11 will use it or a similar technology (like OPENCL or directcompute) in the future.

Ah-HA. I see now. (Thank you for clarifying) I don't know much about Nvidia's products, and I just thought it was pretty interesting.