http://www.dvhardware.net/article27538.html
Met mooi plaatje van 4 9800GX2's
1. The medical researchers ran some benchmarks and found that in some cases their 4000EUR desktop superPC outperforms CalcUA, a 256-node supercomputer with dual AMD Opteron 250 2.4GHz chips that cost the University of Antwerp 3.5 million euro in March 2005:
2. This new system is used by the ASTRA research group, part of the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, to develop new computational methods for tomography. The guys explain the eight NVIDIA GPUs deliver the same performance for their work as more than 300 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors.
AMD Phenom 9850 processor + Scythe Infinity CPU cooler
4x MSI 9800GX2 graphics card
4x 2GB Corsair Twinx DDR2 PC6400 memory
MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB HDD
ThermalTake Toughpower 1500W Modular PSU
Lian-Li PC-P80 Armorsuit case
Windows XP 64-bit
In dit geval heeft de baas van nVidia zeker gelijk dat GPU's belangrijker zijn dan CPU's